# Tagging not working with latest update
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 15, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130 "2017-09-15T15:42:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/1 "2017-09-15T15:42:51Z")
This might turn into a bug report, but I am open to the possibility of user error:
I have just updated to the latest version of Discourse, v1.9.0.beta9 +20. I have the following plugins:
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jcjtce29n8somop/Screenshot%202017-09-15%2011.40.46.png?dl=0)
I added a new topic, and when I tried to tag the topic, I had the following behavior:
1. Any tag I typed in that is already in use on the site had a ‘no results found’
2. These existing tags would not stay in the tag field
3. Any new tags I made up would stay in the tag field, but not save when I clicked “save post”
So, I’m not sure if something changed that I’m unaware of, but currently my Discourse doesn’t seem to allow tagging of posts.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/2 "2017-09-15T15:45:44Z")
To add some flavor to my previous post, we have a ‘faq’ tag:
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6o2d0okczj5rvp9/Screenshot%202017-09-15%2011.43.40.png?dl=0)
We do not have a gobbledygook tag:
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ge3tla166vqyhz0/Screenshot%202017-09-15%2011.44.11.png?dl=0)
I can add the gobbledygook tag and not the faq tag by pressing enter at the end of typing the string:
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/86wsts63ff5cmgi/Screenshot%202017-09-15%2011.44.29.png?dl=0)
Once I click the checkbox, the topic does not get tagged, even with ‘gobbledygook’
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/972szckhvw3bg60/Screenshot%202017-09-15%2011.45.29.png?dl=0)
^^ No tags.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/3 "2017-09-15T17:55:07Z")
Can you repro this @jomaxro?
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/5 "2017-09-16T23:19:59Z")
I’ve updated to v1.9.0.beta10 +5 and disabled and re-enabled the tagging system and still having this issue.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/6 "2017-09-18T00:27:18Z")
Can you give us more info about how you setup tags? Did you define any “staff tags” in Admin \> Settings \> Tags? Have you restricted some tags to only be allowed in some categories?
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/7 "2017-09-18T01:18:55Z")
We have one staff tag. I’ve tried to take a screenshot of all our tag settings
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8wwn38xvpsq9mmm/Screenshot%202017-09-17%2021.18.32.png?dl=0)
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/9 "2017-09-25T14:59:49Z")
Since there hasn’t been a lot of other chatter around tagging, it looks like this is specific to my Discourse instance. Any ideas on things I can try to get tagging to work again? I have attempted to rebuild the app but I’m stilling seeing the behavior described above. I don’t see anything relevant in the logs.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/10 "2017-09-25T15:27:57Z")
Do you happen to still have the discourse-tagging plugin installed?
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/11 "2017-09-25T15:54:04Z")
I took a screenshot of my installed plugins in the parent post. I double-checked just now, and it doesn’t look like I have that plugin installed, but maybe one of the other ones I do have installed is relevant?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/12 "2017-09-25T15:56:08Z")
Hmm. I wasn’t able to reproduce the problem. @jomaxro said he was going to try.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/13 "2017-09-25T15:58:11Z")
Apologies for not posting. I set up a Discourse instance with the exact plugins listed, also not able to repro this.
Just to double check, `tagging enabled` didn’t get accidentally unchecked in site settings, right?
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/14 "2017-09-25T16:10:48Z")
That is correct - the tags text box appears when I start a new topic or edit a topic headline. This isn’t true when I disable tagging.
I have just now been able to add the ‘updates’ tag to a topic:
1. I click the edit pencil
[Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhs1mnxpbl9b7id/Screenshot%202017-09-25%2012.09.04.png?dl=0)
2. I click on the “choose optional tags for this topic” text box and see the ‘updates’ tag as the only tag that appears
[Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/yp1xyzegfly002b/Screenshot%202017-09-25%2012.09.28.png?dl=0)
3. If I click that tag, it is applied properly, but anything else I type into that box doesn’t show up as relayed earlier
[Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/r75tzc3w39n0yhn/Screenshot%202017-09-25%2012.10.18.png?dl=0)
[Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/nj8i18avwh54o3h/Screenshot%202017-09-25%2012.10.27.png?dl=0)
This is a tricky one! I appreciate y’all looking into it.
**UPDATE:** Is there any way to manage topic tags? I don’t know enough about how tagging works but my spidey-sense tells me there is a tag that is in some way ‘corrupted’.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/15 "2017-09-25T16:15:10Z")
If you visit the tags page `/tags` you can apply bulk edits to existing tags like rename and delete. Is that what you’re looking for?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/16 "2017-09-25T16:18:25Z")
I haven’t looked into it much, but I’m wondering if “tag groups” or category “allowed tags” are involved here.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/17 "2017-09-25T16:18:29Z")
Maybe! The fact that only one tag seems to ‘work’ right now just seems off, because I know my users love haphazardly tagging things.
The set of tags lives here:
> **[Tags](https://community.ottoneu.com/tags)**
>
> Tags
There are a ton of tags, here is a sample:
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jyg7zf07elcgzyi/Screenshot%202017-09-25%2012.17.42.png?dl=0)
The tags AJAX endpoint only bringing back ‘updates’ when there are this many tags? Something seems up there…
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/18 "2017-09-25T16:19:24Z")
Is it expected behavior that if there is a tag for a specific category, then no other tags may be applied to that category? Because if so I think @Mittineague nailed it.
**UPDATE** Yeah jeesh that took me a long time to find that. Ok thank you everyone, I am officially the worst 🙂
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/19 "2017-09-25T16:20:47Z")
Whoo!!! Glad you figured that out. Thanks @Mittineague! Closing this as not a bug.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-not-working-with-latest-update/70130/20 "2017-09-25T22:00:05Z")
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