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\n  We are a licensed customer of AlwaysUp<\/a> and its a great help to our services.<\/p>\n

However one of the things I want to be able to do is “group” services into a logical set. That way you can see which services belong together visually in AlwaysUp, and more importantly you can start or stop all services in a group either through user interaction or through the AlwaysUp CLT<\/a>. Also, when defining services through the CLT or XML, we’d like to set the group to fit into.<\/p>\n

Do you think this is something that can be accommodated in a future release or something that may be even there right now and I can use? It will be useful for our product because it has a number of different services that need to start up together and shutdown together seamlessly.<\/p>\n

Let me know. Thanks.<\/p>\n

— Mac B<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hi Mac. Great question! It’s easy to see how being able to group your applications and operate on them as a unit is a very powerful capability.<\/p>\n

The good news is that AlwaysUp already supports application grouping. It’s implemented through the use of tags<\/a>, which work in the user interface and behind the scenes in the APIs as well.<\/p>\n

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What’s a tag in AlwaysUp?<\/h2>\n

A tag is simply a word or phrase that you assign to an AlwaysUp application. It can be anything you like. The only restriction is that spaces and semi-colons are not allowed.<\/p>\n

For instance:<\/p>\n