Since Tags are so important in Discourse best practices, I believe we need at least the basic operations for managing them. And it seems like one that is missing is being able to merge one tag into another. For example, if users create both #dog and #dogs, at some point the admin will want to consolidate these.
What I’d expect is that when I tell it to rename #dog to #dogs it would say, “Tag already exists, do you want to merge this one in to that one?” instead of just denying the operation as it does currently.
As it stands it seems like I’d have to modify those topics one by one and finally delete the empty tag.
There is a related topic about synonyms, which is related to some degree.
The tools already exist to do this, just not in the form of a merge button. It’s actually useful to be alerted to a tag already existing, and a merger would be irreversible, so it’s probably wise that it’s not just a click away.
You can also just visit a tag page, then click on the icon to the left of Topic which reveals checkboxes to the left of each topic and the following buttons:
Hit Select All on the posts and use Append Tag on the wrench menu:
(And FWIW I wasn’t suggesting just a “one click” action. I was advocating having to click “rename tag” and then having to click through another confirmation as well. But this workaround of append and delete should be fine for me.)
IIRC, you have to scroll down to load more, and then ‘select all’. I think it only grabs the ones it can ‘see’, so you have to scroll to load them first.
But… That menu isn’t helping when there is just some tags to changed or renamed. I can remove all tags or change all tags, not one. And posts typically have more than just one tag, and all posts, that all post sharing one tag have another different tags too — and those should leave alone.
So this solution doesn’t help when there is a need merge/rename tags. It helps when there is a need to alter every tags to same on plenty of posts.
I’m not sure I’m following? My tip was for the ‘only the 30 at a time’ issue. The bulk select may not be the solution for all cases. I think it works on a search result page as well as the topic list though, if that’s any help?
We, or I, can blame mine lousy english skills and badly formated sentences. After thanks that next chapter, that started unluckily But… didn’t refer to your tip, but the orginal advise to use that tool.
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My tip was for the ‘only the 30 at a time’ issue. The bulk select may not be the solution for all cases. I think it works on a search result page as well as the topic list though, if that’s any help?
Being able to merge tags would be easier than the bulk action dance.