# Deepening tag structure?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** tags\
**Created:** [September 15, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165 "2023-09-15T15:18:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165/1 "2023-09-15T15:18:01Z")

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Hey, guys! Hope you’re all doing fine ^^

I’ve been having a bit of trouble with tags on my forum (even though I’ve read the great introduction on tagging that’s been posted here ^^). The following questions are based on this experience and are all inter-related:

1. I allow users to create tags, but every tag they create goes to the “Other tags” group. Is there a way to attribute new tags to the groups of tags related to the category in which they are being created?
2. One of the categories on my forum is for people to share their readings, and in the long run it will be very important that anyone can navigate this category by kind of text (novel, short story, poem, book of poems etc.), author and the name of the book. Ideally, if no one has ever posted anything about, say, Louise Glück, any user should be able to start a topic on her, and it would be great if it were done in an organized manner already. What I imagine is the editor asking the person to fill the tags in hierarchy and automatically attibuting them to the specific tag group  
of the request (please, add the kind of text you’re talking about; now add the author; now add the book). How could it be done?
3. – Also, how can one tag be used transversally in two categories, but not be chooseable on the others? As I understand it now, it’s either limited to one category or chooseable on all of them. This would be important in many different ways: on the above case (#2), an author that publishes both poetry and prose could be understood as a single tag that has expression on these two parent-tags  
– Under the category _Writings_, I have a subcategory for _Books in process_, so the community can contribute to larger projects in an organized manner. How could a poem that’s published on the _Books in process_ subcategory also have a tag that’s limited to the _Writings_ category (namely, the tag “member-poem”). I want this so a poem that belongs to a book in process can still be found through the general tag of member poems.

I guess this is it. If what I want is not possible now, how would you approach it?

I don’t understand much about coding, but a beautiful side-effect of starting this business of mine is to begin to understand how complex and intricate your work is: each minor change is a lot of work and might have consequences and challenges no one could have foressen, and there are infinite use-cases. I hope these tagging needs I brought make sense to more people too.

Thanks!

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