Project tags do not show anywhere on the UI except in the settings

You can assign tags to a project in the project settings.

However the tag doesn't display anywhere else in the UI and it is impossible to tell what tags are assigned to projects.

I was trying to find the use of tags too and couldn't find anything in the UI. It would be great if we can filter projects based on the tags.

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#13351 (moved)

In large organizations and governments it is extremely beneficial to tag a project with things like: owner-group-1, legacy, dotnet

Project tags should be usable from the API as well, perhaps provide a way to search for projects by tag, as well as edit and apply tags by the API.

I'm looking for this feature too.

Can we ride the tag filtering feature on top of the "Filter by name" text search box? We can search for "tags:community" or "tags:community,document"?

I have access to an older version of GitLab at my work and we use tags there to group projects by client and/or type. There is a tag section on the projects view, with one click you see all the projects under a tag.

So the the tags in project suppose to do?

A tags filter on the overview page would be very very helpful. :) Thumbs up!

A tags filter on the API would be useful too.

Being able to view tags on the project list screen would be great, too.

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#20524 (closed)

I would love this feature!

Added feature proposal in GitLab FOSS label

cc @JobV

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Would be very very useful. Thx

So far we have

• Showing the tags of a project in the UI
• Use tags from the API to
  • get all projects for tag X
  • add and edit tags
• Tag filtering in the search box like tags:community
• Filter by tags on the projects page

I think these are all very useful if a user has a certain amount of projects under his hand. Especially in enterprise environments this would be perfect to have. But I can see this being used in CE too.

I absolutely agree. I actuslly would need those tags to do some stuff in the API based on them (create external code quality environments depending on the tags etc). We currently have to manage around 260 projects in our GotLab CE installation and besides them being useful for API stuff I'd love to have them available in the UI too so we could just filter them or see at one glance what this project is tagged for. It would also be phenomenal of we could assign colors to the Tags like it's being done with labels in issues or at least like Tags on gitlab-runners

Further tags integration is definitely necessary; just like @bernhardberger we have lots of projects here, and tags could really save us a lot of time. Is there any chance to see anything coming out of this ?

Mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#13351 (moved)

We have a large number of Repos and are looking to use Tags to help identify and manage products. Having UI allow filtering by Tags would help Administration and Development teams better manage Repos.

Not sure if the tab bar (that says All Projects) is actually used for anything. I just probably haven't come across it yet, but we could put tags in there?

It was for this reason that I wanted to remove project tags (they can cause problems in large installations when deleting lots of projects): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28992

@mydigitalself some of the use cases for project tags are here!

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I work at worlds biggest fusion research centre, and we host and use a Gitlab instance here. And due to a a lack of a catalogue style layer, we was hoping to implement one using the v4 API, and the tag system as a form of filtering. This would mean we would like the API to be able to produce a list of all tags (similar to how the drop-down was done before but this time by API call instead), and then the option to filter projects by a tag. This would allow us to manage and search through projects much better, however we do require the tag system to still exist, though removing the giant list in the UI was a good move, and for tags to be usable in the API.

We feel this is a very general use-case for tags in larger organisations where management is a key aspect.

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#14135 (closed)

It was opened about 1 years ago, how is this going? Already on schedule list?

There are over hundreds of projects in my company, it's very necessary/helpful to be able to filter/group projects by tags.

marked this issue as related to gitlab-foss#36772 (closed)

Let's resurrect this feature proposal. Tags were available in the user interface:

But were recently dropped for performance reasons. Please see the following issue and merge request for more information:

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28992
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10242

However, this issue has a lot of votes so it's clear users want this functionality

/cc @mydigitalself

marked this issue as related to gitlab-foss#13351 (moved)

ZD: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/81419 (internal only)

mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#36772 (closed)

changed milestone to %Next 3-6 months in gitlab-foss

KISS workaround is to use search and put tags into project description.

This is image for CI runner #ci #image

search: #ci #image

However #image #ci won't work because search is looking for the whole string.

moved from gitlab-foss#2978 (moved)