π·οΈ Tags
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- Tags classify Designs and Products; not customers or orders.
- They're used to filter lists and to choose what to publish on a marketplace.
- A tag can bring others along (Dependencies) when you apply it to a design.
- They're created from the picker or in Settings β Operations β Tags; editing and deleting them is up to the Owner and Admins.
Tags are a flexible way to classify and filter your catalogue. You can create as many as your workflow needs.
Tags apply to Designs and Products. They don't apply to customers or orders β to classify orders you have the Kanban statuses, and to group customers you have sales channels.
What are tags for?
Some common examples:
- On designs: "Miniatures", "Functional", "Needs supports", "Validated", "High turnover".
- On products: "New", "On sale", "Gift", "Customisable", "Seasonal".
They serve two purposes:
- Filtering the Designs and Products lists by category in one click.
- Choosing what to publish to a marketplace: when publishing to Etsy you can filter products by tag instead of ticking them one by one.
Creating a tag
- Go to Settings β Operations β Tags.
- Click "New tag".
- Type the name and, if you like, tick its Dependencies: other tags that are added automatically every time you apply this one to a design (for example, βWarhammer 40kβ can bring βMiniaturesβ along with it).
- Click Create tag.
The tag is now available to assign to designs and products.
You can also create a tag on the fly, without leaving the screen: the tag selector of a design or a product (and the filter in the Designs and Products lists) has a button for creating a new one.
Assigning tags
- On designs: open the design record β Tags selector.
- On products: open the product record β Tags selector.
You can assign several tags to the same design or product.
From the Designs and Products lists the same selector works as a filter: you pick one or more tags and the list narrows down to whatever carries them.
Editing or deleting tags
From Settings β Operations β Tags you can change the name or the dependencies of an existing tag. If you delete a tag, it's removed from every design and product that had it assigned.
Deleting a heavily used tag can lose you classification information. If you simply want to change what it means, rename it instead.
Who can manage tags?
| Action | Read-only | Worker | Admin | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| View and filter by tags | β | β | β | β |
| Assign tags | β | β | β | β |
| Create a tag from the selector | β | β | β | β |
| Edit or delete tags (in Settings) | β | β | β | β |
The Settings β Operations β Tags page is only visible to the Owner and Admins; a Worker can create new tags from the selector, but can't edit or delete existing ones.