Hi Team,
I’m recently new to being an admin for discourse, however I have been a user in many places for some time. I’d like help with working out how best to manage categories/tags please.
I have categories Industrial
, Commercial
and Domestic
. Under Industrial I have sub-cat Oil and Gas
, Mining
and Power Generation
. I’d like a third tier which I thought I could manage with tags. The trouble is, when I make a tag compulsory, for example under Oil and Gas
I have Onshore
and Offshore
, I then can’t appear to have additional tags that the users can create. If I add another tag group, say cable, wire, EEHA, motor
, then these can be used as the compulsory flag too…which goes against what I would like.
This is an example of a preferable hierarchy. (Example could be onshore
be a compulsory tag and any-tag
be any tag, or any tag group.
Industrial
└─ Oil and Gas
│ └───Onshore
│ │ - any_tag
│ │
│ └───Offshore
│ - any_tag
│
└─ Mining
│ └───Extraction
│ │ - any_tag
│ │
│ └───Processing
│ │ - any_tag
│ │
│ └───Refining
│ - any_tag
│
└─ Power Generation
Commercial
└─ Foo
Domestic
└─ Blah
Question 1: Have I missed something with how tags are managed?
Question 2: If not able to specify a compulsory tag from one group, and then any tag after, am I better off making the Sub-categories Oil and Gas - Onshore
, Oil and Gas - Onshore
?
Thanks for your time in helping me better understand the workings of these. For the record, I have searched in past questions but they only seem to cover mandatory groups or free tags, not a mixture of both.