inverting DT's tagging concept

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Can I select a just handful of groups that will auto-tag any documents put into them?

It seems to me that I’ve got an all-or-nothing approach. I can allow all groups in the database to trigger tags, in which case I’ve got an unholy mess of tags. This would be OK if selecting a top-level group and checking “Exclude from tagging” also excluded all groups in the hierarchy below it, but it doesn’t, which means a laborious process of singly excluding groups from tagging. And I don’t want to have to exclude every new group I make, either.

So can I invert the “groups are tags” workflow by just choosing a few groups that will impart meaningful tags when docs are assigned to them?

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Wouldn’t it be simpler to just turn on “Exclude Groups from Tagging” in your database’s properties, and then assign a “real” tag to the group? Tags assigned to groups are inherited by the group’s child groups and child documents – as long as the children are children. Move the document elsewhere, though, and the tag will be removed.

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That’s what i was looking for … I was overthinking it :blush: