Today I made the rather sad discovery that the bulk “change tags” feature depicted below actually will set the tags for selected topics to be exactly the same as the tags entered, meaning it will remove any existing tags. Discovery is sad because I accidentally borked 20 or more topic tags because I misunderstood what was going to happen, and there’s no undo.
A fix to this would be to add a new “Add Tags” option to the bulk actions, which would allow the bulk adding of tags to selected topics without removing any existing tags those topics might have.
Yes, please add this ASAP. We have just installed the tags plugin, and it is great!
But we need to do many searches, and ADD tags for each search, NOT replace tags.
I’m not familiar with the process. Can this change be used now (if so, how?) or do we have to wait for it to be integrated with a new Discourse release?
You have to wait for it to be merged in. Once it is merged in tests-passed will pick it up within 15-20 minutes, beta will pick it up at the next release, and stable at its next release.
