Can tags be added to users?

No. Only groups. What problem are you trying to solve?

[image] pfaffman: What problem are you trying to solve? We’re helping a charity. They asked for a way to determine the skills and interests of the volunteers. I started using CustomUserField but ran into a hard coded limit. I thought of using tags. I think groups will cut it. Thanks Jay …

What about custom badges? You can easily list volunteers with specific ones. Example: https://meta.discourse.org/badges/3/regular

[image] omarfilip: What about custom badges? You can easily list volunteers with specific ones. Can a user set their own custom badges?

I don’t think so, but they can freely join and leave groups to which you can assign automatic badges: https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-sql-can-no-longer-be-edited-by-default/47894/30?u=omarfilip

Ah. That helps make sense of your questions! I couldn’t figure why you needed so many custom fields. You could get a plugin to create tags on a custom field, but groups seem like a workable solution.

See also: [image] Tagging users (with interests/passions/skills etc) feature Continuing the discussion from Introducing the Staff Notes Plugin : I’m really keen to find a way to tag users with interests/skills/passions so that I can pull people into relevant discussions. …

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tomtjes (Thomas Reintjes) June 2, 2019, 1:19pm 8

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