New Topic dialogue: Tag list populated with random tags instead of requirements

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Frully is discussing an issue with the tag selection interface in a forum category for meetings, where the auto-populated tag list does not reflect the required tags, instead showing popular but irrelevant tags. The category requires at least two tags from specific groups (e.g., ‘documents’ and ‘type’), but the system suggests unrelated, commonly used tags instead of the required ones. While forcing one tag group to be locked allows the list to populate correctly, this limits flexibility—especially when needing to add tags like month and year, which can overwhelm the required tags. Frully asks if there’s a way to combine a pre-filled, requirement-based tag list with the ability to add freeform tags, avoiding the current confusion and inefficiency.

I’m trying to enforce tags in a category - the requirements are easy enough - but for the end users it’s very confusing, because the tag list doesn’t populate with options from the requirements.

Forum category: meetings, for tracking meeting agendas and minutes. annual meetings, monthly meetings, and extraordinary meetings.
I’ve set the requirements of minimum 2 tags, but the tag suggestions autopopulate with the most commonly used tags, not the contents of the required tags lists:


documents: agenda or minutes
type: monthly, annual, extraordinary


*Remind me to ban the person who keeps abusing tags about birds.

It complains about not enough or incorrect tags…but doesn’t make the choice intuitive. Is there a way to force populate the list if two tag groups are required?

Example where I force zero tags, but one tag group is locked to that category:


The intuitive list populates.

I can group all the tags into one group for the list to populate… and require one from each sub-group …which mostly works but precludes me from adding month and year tags…eventually it’ll need a dozen year tags, a dozen month name tags, and all of those will drown out the truly required categorization tags. If I check ‘Also allow other tags’ the suggestion list devolves back to ‘popular garbage’.

Is there any way to get the best of both worlds? Pre-filled specific tag list and ability to freeform other tags?

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