Have more than 2 tag levels

teletubbie

Hello
Currently there are only 2 tag levels.
So If I need to create 3 levels like this:
OS->OSX->Catalina
Flarum will not allow this.
It is a limitation.
By the way, If webmasters want to migrate from other forum systems to Flarum, it will be a problem when they migrate their 5 tag levels to Flarum.
Thanks

askvortsov

Actually, this issue is (very recently) discussed here: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23917-my-word-to-the-infinite-nesting-of-tags. This is likely not something that will be supported in Tags in the near future. If you really need it, you can always fork the tag extension and make changes there, but I would recommend starting by trying to reorganize your forum to make the categorization less complex: Often, over-categorization can end up hurting user experience.

teletubbie

askvortsov
Hello. Thanks for the reply. Please can you tell me how to organize tags if for instance I have a forum and I need to talk about "Hardware", "OS", "OSX", "Windows", "Ubuntu", "OSX", "Catalina".

Intuitively a user would assume that the hierarchy for "Catalina" is as follows:
OS->OSX->Catalina

I would like to know.

Thanks.

askvortsov

I think you would probably be quite safe with OS->OSX Catalina. IMO, that is understandable to users. However, keep in mind that this is just my personal opinion

teletubbie

askvortsov
Ok, but this was only an example. What if I need to talk about a,b,c,d,e on my forum and they have this intuitive hierarchy?
a->b->c->d->e

askvortsov

Look, I understand what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, tags doesn't support infinite nesting, and there are currently no plans to do so. Here's a few possible workarounds:

Build / hire someone to build a fork of tags (or new extension altogether) that allows deeper nesting
Build / hire someone to build a multi-tenant extension where you can have multiple "subforums", each with their own distinct tags, but with different categories
Flatten your category structure a bit. In my experience, creating overly-complex categories is unnecessary and can actually detract from user experience. If you have a forum with 100 million posts, then yes, perhaps that kind of structure is necessary (and tbh, even so 3 (or maybe 4 max) would be the maximum necessary
Use secondary tags to provide additional categorization when needed.

fakruzaruret

askvortsov I think it can be increase to 3 level.