API Support for Automatically Updating 'Create Tag Allowed Groups' in tags settings

[chapoi (Charlie)]

@S.AAKASH_MUTHIAH

Is there any limit on the number of groups that can be added to the “Create tag allowed groups” field?

Not sure, but I don’t think we have a hard limit. The UI may become quite unwieldy though.

@S.AAKASH_MUTHIAH

Is there an API available to update the “Create tag allowed groups” from the backend automatically, without manually updating it from the application side? This process should happen every time a category is created.

You could maybe have a look at making a custom script with automations

Create custom Automations

This is a draft, and may need some extra work. Vocabulary trigger: represents the name of the trigger, eg: user_added_to_group triggerable: represents the code logic associated to a trigger, eg: triggers/user_added_to_group_.rb script: represents the name of the script, eg: send_pms scriptable: represents the code logic associated to a script, eg: scripts/send_pms.rb Plugin API add_automation_scriptable(name, &block) add_automation_triggerable(name, &block) Scriptable AP…

If you don’t need every moderator group to be it’s own group, you could instead add that list of users to the same group and only add that one to Create tag allowed groups field. Wouldn’t that suffice?

In that case, you could take a look at An 'add to group' script for the Discourse Automation