Hi everyone, I want to enforce a rule in my Discourse forum where, for a specific category only, users must attach a particular tag when creating a topic. Users can attach any number of tags, but one specific tag must be present; otherwise, the topic creation should be blocked with an error message…

I’m fairly sure you can do this with built-in tools. In the category settings, look at: [CleanShot 2025-08-25 at 13.21.39@2x] So you just need to make a tag-group, add the tag you want, and then select that group in the category you want it to be required.

Hi, I followed the steps. I created a Tag Group and added a single tag to it. In the category settings, under Tags > Required tag group, I selected this tag group. My expectation is: when creating a new topic in this category, at least one tag from the required tag group should be mandatory. …

I think you’re right and you have uncovered a bug. I’m pinging the relevant team!

@S.AAKASH_MUTHIAH Okay so it turns out this restriction does not apply to admins… So at least it’s working as expected for normal users, I’ve tested it and can confirm. We’re discussing internally how we will improve this further, either by applying it globally or making this behaviour at least c…

I personally would rather it not apply globally, the point of Admins is supposed to be you can override anything and this would make it impossible to override this specific thing. Unless you add a way to get around that, which just seems like a lot more work than leaving it as is. I mean Admins can…

@S.AAKASH_MUTHIAH were you able to resolve your issue? I think @chapoi ’s advice works for your use case. You just have to remember that you as admin are not impacted by it, as you are not impacted by other restrictions for non-admins.

特定のカテゴリでのトピック作成に必須タグを適用する方法（BlackoutテーマのテーマJS経由）

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chapoi 2025 年 8 月 26 日午前 8:53 4

おっしゃる通りだと思います。バグを見つけてくださったようです。関係チームに連絡します！

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Required tags should only be required based on type of user UX tag-groups , tags	11	97	2025 年 12 月 27 日
Remove optional tag UX	9	1212	2020 年 10 月 11 日
Topic can be created without tags despite category requiring tags Bug tag-groups , tags	4	90	2025 年 9 月 24 日
The option to enforce tagging Feature	18	5989	2018 年 5 月 21 日
Category with restricted tags now required for admins? Support	9	766	2020 年 6 月 3 日

特定のカテゴリでのトピック作成に必須タグを適用する方法（BlackoutテーマのテーマJS経由）

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