# Bulk tag buttons appear when tagging is disabled

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 15, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092 "2017-09-15T04:09:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/1 "2017-09-15T04:09:13Z")

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The buttons to replace or append tags appear in the topic list bulk actions modal even when tagging is not enabled. Clicking on either provides a text field to type tags, which says “Loading failed” as the autocomplete option. A 404 error is thrown by the attempted tag search `https://discourse.example.com/tags/filter/search?q=&limit=5&selected_tags=&filterForInput=true`

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/2 "2018-07-09T07:27:53Z")

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Can we still repro this @simon?

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/3 "2018-07-09T15:44:06Z")

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Yes, the Replace Tags and Append Tags options are still given when tags are disabled. If you try to enter a tag name, an error modal pops up saying ‘The requested URL or resource could not be found.’

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/4 "2018-07-09T18:51:40Z")

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Is this a good starter task @sam?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/5 "2018-07-10T01:43:35Z")

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Yes this feels like an easy change to me, client knows if tagging is enabled or not.

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### Author: ![dan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dan/32/101549_2.png) [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/6 "2018-07-21T17:32:37Z")

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Hello guys,

This is a pretty long standing bug and I decided to give it a try. I just submitted [this pull request](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6136#issuecomment-406811526).

Before:

 ![15](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/e/5e0fb3f2db43d6d51de6560e00591482cf0b1342.png)

After:

 ![44](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/d/ad9e99d4aee17d9103233799885c493ebb843fa6.png)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-tag-buttons-appear-when-tagging-is-disabled/70092/7 "2018-07-23T02:35:22Z")

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Thanks, fix is merged!