Is there a way to limit who can use a certain tag?

[civitas_john (John Chen)]

For example, we may want a specific tag called “Homepage”, and then display recent “Homepage” posts on our main website. If we allow all users to choose this tag, it would become a mess. So, I wonder if there is a way to achieve this end - that only certain (groups of) users can use certain tags.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Yes. You can create a tag group, and then restrict use of tags in that group to certain users (also by group, but a different kind of group!)

[Tris20 (Tristan)]

Just to expand a bit on @mattdm’s response, below are the steps you can take to achieve this functionality

Step 1: Create a Tag Group

1. Go to your Tag Group panel. This can be accessed by appending /tag_groups to your forum’s URL (e.g., https://yourforum.discourse.org/tag_groups).
2. Here, click on the New button to create a new tag group.
3. Fill in the necessary details for your tag group:

• Name: The name of your tag group.
• Tag names: The tags that you want to include in this group. You can either select from existing tags or create new ones.
• Optional settings such as visibility and whether tags are mandatory for certain categories can also be configured here.

4. Click on the Save button.

Step 2: Restrict Use of Tags in the Group to Certain Users

Below is an example where the cicd-standard tag is visible to all, but restricted to admin-bots etc

You might have also missed this topic which also shows the feature.

Limit tag-groups to certain groups

It would be cool if there was a way to limit the usage of tags from a tag group to certain groups. Currently only the settings “public” and “team” are possible.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

There is one caveat.

If locale is another than EN automatic groups, as trustlevels etc, will use translated names. And those can’t be use. So if a tag group is allowed for TL3 then must create manually another group for TL3 (and higher).

This is longtime bug or design issue. Perhaps it will be fixed sometime.

[JammyDodger]

Hmm. I don’t think I’ve heard of that limitation. Have you got a bug topic you can link to?

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Out there is at least two topics about that — one german, one is mine. I can’t remember where I published mine, can be at support too. It never raised any reactions, though. That’s why my bet goes on design issue

[JammyDodger]

From a quick test, everything appears to be working as expected?

This is the dropdown to select them:

[Moin]

@Jagster

one german, one is mine

Tag group: tag is visible only… setting doesn’t do anything

This starts to be interesting. No matter if I tried win-laptop, several browsers, iPad/iPhone… no luck. But if used selfmade group as limiting one it stayed. A little bit more digging and one issue is automated groups that is translated. Like trustlevel_x vs. Finnish luottamustaso_x. Dsicourse just doesn’t accept translated ones. Well, with tag groups anyway. And yet my TL1 users sees tags no matter what limiting group I’m using. Edit: I can’t change default locale from finnish to english(US…

Display bug in the tag group settings

If I set the option: “Keywords are visible for everyone, but only the following groups can use them”. …select groups > save > then reload the page or go back into the options later, the two selected groups are no longer displayed. However, the function comes into effect and only these two groups can subsequently assign tags from the group. This can cause confusion for multiple administrators. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Thanks already for the feedback

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

@JammyDodger

This is the dropdown to select them

Yes, it is there

Now you can choose one, save, go away, return and reopen that. That trustlevel has disappeared and neved did anything.