DT4 Beta: Restricting AI Tagging to existing tags?

Playing around with the features, in the manual under tagging it says:

Add Chat suggestions to documents: Uses your chosen Chat provider to examine the document and add tags. Optionally, you can have it only apply tags that already exist. These are often more specific, e.g., snow leopard versus feline.

Yet I don’t see any of the inspector panels:

When I tried the Add Chat Suggestions to Document, it invented new tags.

I’ve checked the options panel and the only option I see is on import.

Am I either missing something? Or am I making a feature request?

Did you try Assign Existing Tags?

No - What does that do? It doens’t seem to promise AI/LLM magics.

As noted in the Getting Started > Tagging > Tagging Sources

I can’t tell what this is saying. Is:

Assign existing tags

The same as the import option:

Add Chat suggestions to documents: … Optionally, you can have it only apply tags that already exist

I was trying to test the new LLM features. If it’s not the same, why not make this flag: Optionally, you can have it only apply tags that already exist – global if I want that to be restriction on import. I will likely want it to be true at all times.

Development would have to comment on such decisions.

Assign existing tags and Add Chat suggestions to documents are not identical. See e.g. description of the Settings > Files > Tags > Assign existing tags option.

The option/command Add Chat suggestions to documents uses generative AI instead and might create new tags but this can be avoided by enabling Use only already existing tags of database.

I was trying to point out that on import, you offer a different set of features than inside the app it self. As a user I tend to expect symmetry.

In other words the same tagging features in both places.

Which feature exactly do you have in mind? Settings > Files > Tags > Import is basically identical to Data > Tags.

These options appear to be import only:

I want this version:

to also be restricted existing tags.

The Use only already existing tags of a database option is valid for all chat suggestions, e.g. on import, via smart rules or via the menu.

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