When I assign tags from several tag groups, the tag group also becomes a tag on the item. That’s not preferred as it clutters up the item with extra, unwanted tags. For example, if I organize my tags this way…
TAG_GROUPS>tag
TEACHERS>Campbell
TEACHERS>Harrison
TEACHERS>PATE
COLOR>blue
COLUR>green
COLOR>red
STATUS>pass
STATUS>fail
I tag an item with: Campbell, blue, pass.
Then the tags on the item show: TEACHER, Campbell, COLOR, blue, STATUS, pass.
I would rather have only these tags showing on the item: Campbell, blue, pass.
So, I’m currently naming my tags this way and avoiding tag groups all together:
tch.Campbell
tch.Harrison
tch.PATE
clr.blue
clr.green
clr.red
stat.pass
stat.fail
Then the item tags will show: tch.Campbell, clr.blue, stat.pass.
Is this the best way to avoid having a set of “parent” tag groups showing on an item?
(I wish there was an option to organize tags into folders, where the folders do not become tags on the item.)
What is happening is logical and documented (see Getting Started > Tagging > Nested Tags in the built-in Help and manual).
Since those tags are contextually specific – and tags are specific to a database – do you need any kind of prefix or nested tags at all?
For example, would you be tagging something as pass for any other reason than whether a student passed or failed? And isn’t Campbell always going to be that teacher and not related to soup
By the way, you can (and always have been able to) exclude a tag group from being used as a tag. Control-click it and choose Exclude from Tagging and it will appear as a group. But realize that tag will no longer function as a tag for any purpose in that database.
That’s my solution; reflecting hierarchy in the tagname
I also find the tagnames are more descriptive; tch.Campbell will never be confused with soup.Campbell
Thanks. Choosing Excluding from tagging for the tag groups provided what I needed. I want to group the tags to provide some visual organization for my tags.
