# Privé sjabloonmachtigingen om toegestane PM-taggroepen te overschrijven
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-template-permissions-to-override-allowed-pm-tagging-groups/277513
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** templates
**Created:** [1 september 2023 om 17:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-template-permissions-to-override-allowed-pm-tagging-groups/277513 "2023-09-01T17:55:24Z")
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### Author:  [@evenrue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evenrue)
#### Post date: [1 september 2023 om 17:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-template-permissions-to-override-allowed-pm-tagging-groups/277513/1 "2023-09-01T17:55:24Z")
I have a particular use case that I wanted to ask about for Discourse Templates and private templates. Assuming the current behavior is working as intended, I put this down as a feature request, but if it turns out that what I’m looking for is actually supported already in some way, would appreciate if I could be directed accordingly.
Currently my site is has many many tags and it is generally assumed regular users are NOT using them in PMs at all; I have tagging in PMs limited to only staff as we use it for administrative organizational support.
But I would like to potentially make available private templates to regular users. Given the current setup, even if I specify that the main group is allowed to use private templates, if I do not make ALL tags available to them (via regular Discourse settings), they will not have tagging enabled at all on PMs and therefore cannot tag with even just `template`.
It would be nice if there was a setting in Templates that allowed users in the permitted groups to tag _only_ with the template tags specified by the Templates plugin. I realize this might be a tall ask, but wanted to throw it in there, especially if I’m missing something.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [23 april 2025 om 11:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-template-permissions-to-override-allowed-pm-tagging-groups/277513/2 "2025-04-23T11:18:59Z")
I have found a workaround for this. Since two weeks [the logic in the automation plugin has been relaxed](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6e654bc596723c8458b585c9cc2907d6254397ef), so what you can do is set up an automation that tags the PMs, even when a user cannot do that.
- Create a user, for instance `@Templates`
- Set up the templates plugin so it uses the tag `template` to indicate a private template.
- Set up the automation plugin so it will add the tag `template` to any PM sent to `@Templates`
- Instead of having your users tag the PMs, ask them to send the PM to `@Templates`