HashTags
A hashtag is a name you give to a set of points you selected on the map. The HashTags panel lists the tags you made, how many points each one covers, and a one-sentence summary of what those points are about. Clicking a tag pulls its points back into your selection.
Heads up
Hashtags are not saved anywhere. They live in your browser, in the map instance you created them in, for as long as the page is open. Reload the page and they are gone. Nobody else can see them.
Where to find it
View > Inspection > HashTags. You rarely need to open it by hand: the panel opens itself the moment you create a tag.
Creating a tag
There is exactly one way to make a hashtag, and it is a keyboard shortcut.
- Select points on the map. Anything works: a click, a lasso, a cluster from Explorer. With nothing selected the shortcut does nothing.
- Press H. Plain
h, with no modifier keys, and not while your cursor is in a text box. A small input appears over the map reading Enter hashtag… (Press Enter to save). - Type the tag and press ↵. The tag is attached to every currently selected point, the input closes, and the HashTags panel opens.
Type the tag without a leading #; the panel adds it. Spaces are allowed, and the panel renders them as underscores, so to review is listed as #to_review.
What the panel shows
One row per tag, in the order you created them. Each row has:
- The tag, as
#tag. - The number of points it covers.
- An italic one-line summary underneath, once it arrives. Mantis asks the backend for a summary of the tagged points in at most fifteen words when the tag is created. If the backend does not answer, the row simply has no summary.
Before you have made any tags, the panel says No hashtags yet. Press ‘h’ with points selected to create a hashtag.
Clicking a tag
Clicking a row toggles that tag’s points in the current selection. If all of them are already selected, they are removed; otherwise they are added to whatever is already selected. It does not filter, hide, or isolate anything, and it does not move the map.
Filtering the map by tag
The map’s search box understands tags in keyword mode. Type #review and the map filters to the points carrying a tag whose name contains review. The matching is substring matching, so #rev finds #review too. Prefix a term with - to exclude it, as in -#review, and separate terms with a comma or the word or to match any of them.
Limits
- No persistence. There is no hashtag record on the server. Tags disappear on reload, and they never reach a teammate. The only thing that leaves your browser is the request that generates the tag’s one-line summary.
- One map, one list. The tags belong to the map instance you made them in. Open a second map and it has its own, empty list.
- No rename, no delete, no edit. The panel has no controls beyond clicking a row.
- Tags are snapshots. A tag stores the ids of the points selected when you created it. Selecting more points and reusing the same name adds a second row with the same name rather than extending the first.