To reproduce: * Go to people's page on any course * Select Manage Tags * Create new tags * Use the same name for all the tags you create * The system has no mechanism to stop names being duplicates I logged this with Support and was told this was "intended behaviour". I cannot think of a single use-case where this would be useful to have the same tag names. Please fix this.

BUG: tags not checked for unique names

AlexAnguix

To reproduce:

Go to people's page on any course
Select Manage Tags
Create new tags
Use the same name for all the tags you create
The system has no mechanism to stop names being duplicates

I logged this with Support and was told this was "intended behaviour".

I cannot think of a single use-case where this would be useful to have the same tag names. Please fix this.

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C_Miller

Reproduceable following Alex's five step instructions.

Duplicate tag bug, reproduced.

robert_hollenbe

I cannot think of a single use-case where this would be useful to have the same tag names.

Imagine a situation where application of tags is automated across thousands of courses. You might find you need multiple system-generated tag_ids which all map to the same semantic meaning. In that case, forced uniqueness on a label field would be extremely frustrating. And then I would have started this thread instead of you. And we would be having the exact mirror-image of this discussion. 😃

There is also a UX aspect to this. It's fairly standard across Canvas that label/informational fields allow duplicates (e.g., course names, user names). From a system design perspective, consistent UX behaviour across many features is (IMO) arguably more important than the implementation details of any one feature.

MadeleineToh

I have a similar situation. If I create a single tag for a course via SIS upload, then reupload the same csv file, the class now has:

1. One tag with the same name

2. One tag set with the same name

Do note, nothing in the csv file changed between the first two uploads. The headers of the file are simply:

tag_id

course_id

name

status

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