So this is very possible to most silly question…but I cannot figure out how to “tag” a post. I see where you would flag a post and where you would bookmark a post, but I don’t see where/how you would go about tagging a certain post to a certain subject.

Or you could simply enter a unique word in the post, like multisonant, and then search for it. :man_shrugging: [image]

[صورة] codinghorror: Or you could simply enter a unique word in the post, like multisonant, and then search for it. :man_shrugging: Wouldn’t work for these applications. In both cases we are using tags as secondary metadata, added automatically or manually by administrators.

Sure it would. Edit the posts, add the “magic words”, then search for them.

[صورة] codinghorror: Edit the posts, add the “magic words”, then search for them. That would however mean adding a mysterious tag like “SKK-17363” or “Ethno-Cat2-ResearchQuestion” to every post we want to tag, confusing both the authors of the post and the users reading it. And since we read …

The idea of hashtags has been raised a few times before: I think the earliest instance was: https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposal-for-a-hash-tagging-feature/6304 There are a few others like: https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-search-onclick-hashtags/75666

There has been recent discussion about having “the word” in a comment https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-post-custom-field-when-composing/78642 The post_custom_fields table is there. If a JSON string was needed I think a plugin could be worked up. discourse/app/models/post_custom_field.rb at main ·…

@hugi did you end up developing this plugin? I’m also looking to tag posts (for metadata purposes through the API)

Not to add unnecessary “me wants this too” posts, but my use case is that I want to give students credit for class participation, so I want to tag individual posts (not entire threads) denoting that a student has made a recognized contribution. I’d then love to use the data explorer plugin or simil…

[صورة] Godmar_Back: I want to tag individual posts (not entire threads) denoting that a student has made a recognized contribution. I’d then love to use the data explorer plugin or similar to tally up the contributions. [صورة] Godmar_Back: is there a way to accomplish this use case with e…

Ok, so I tried bookmarking. I can bookmark a post, give it a name; it would show up in my /activity/bookmarks I would love to have a solution where the person whose post I bookmarked under a given name could see that I bookmarked it - which as proposed wouldn’t work, right. (But the bulk data extra…

How do I tag a post?

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How do I tag a post?

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