Confluence Database Tag Field Settings - Missing Checkbox for "allow new tag creation"

Question

I have been playing around with trying to implement some databases for things we were previously using spreadsheets for and have found a lot of use cases that work very well.  I have set up a number of DBs and was heavily utilizing the Tag data column type.

Before last week there was an option to toggle "allow new tag creation" on and off for that type of field. I am no longer seeing that as an option, which makes several of my DBs a lot less useful if people can just add whatever tag they want.

Alex Beaudet · Answer

We sent in a help request and it was confirmed today that it is an intentional change to remove "allow new tag creation" and set that as a default. Support mentioned they're working with the Atlassian content team to update the documentation, and that they're going to add a new feature request to restore the functionality that can be voted on.

Will edit/link to the Feature Request once that's been provided.

If you want this functionality to be restored you can vote for the functionality request/suggestion here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-81803

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Answer

Hi @Alex Beaudet ,

In the same boat, I don't see it either. Although, it is still in the documentation:

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/database-fields/

Unfortunately, It looks like it may have been removed.