My forum uses 9 parent tags and each parent tag has children. I want my users to be forced to use one parent tag, which they are, but I also don’t want them to be able to use MORE than one parent tag. I can already force them to use two primary tags, but if they were only able to use 1 parent, they would be forced to use a child tag.

Basically, I want them to have to set 1 parent tag, and 1 child tag per discussion. If anyone knows how to create an extension for this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please let me know if my explanation of my request needs clarifying. I feel like this forum specifically could benefit from this feature.

    BrodyStone21

    Oh, yeah nah I think I understand what you're meaning.

    I'm pretty sure all you'd need to do is set the required number of 'Primary Tags' as [2] to [2]

    As counterintuitive as this (very obviously) seems. Users won't actually be able to select two different Parent tags, but rather once they select their first Parent tag they'll then only have the option to select that Parent tag's Child tags.

    *At least, this is the tag selection behaviour I'm experiencing at my 3 Flarum sites.
    Does the same behaviour not occur for you?

    EDIT: In case I'm mistaken about how the tagging system works here/or instead the tagging behaviour I've experienced at my sites were anomalous and not meant to be occuring, I'll add that I think the Tags extension control panel interface probably should be improved slightly to clarify the distinctions between [Primary], [Child] & [Secondary] tags, as well as describing how each of these function & interact.
    (*What I'm meaning is simply updating the extension to include a descriptive breakdown is all.)

    Or, alternatively maybe we could even consider upgrading the Tags extension to include additional tagging settings/options specific to each of the 3 tag types...(¿?)

    EDIT #2: Note; Please disregard my above opinions regarding the Tag extension functionality. I was mistaken.
    😂So yeah it appears there must have been something erroneous-(although quite handy tbh)-interfering with my sites tagging systems.
    Seems to be back to normal now.

        User31 what settings are you using? I’m able to select multiple parent tags on my member only account.

            BrodyStone21

            Huh?, ok ahh😅, I guess this probably means there's something anomalous going on with my site's tagging system then aye.

            I need to go look into this further.

            Would you mind if I pop over to MBF to create a test discussion?

                16 days later

                BrodyStone21
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                It will solve your problem. But there is a small issue with this that isn't really a bug, when you're posting it will make you double select tags, even if you've already selected them before hitting post.