How do I add many tags to a Confluence Database in bulk?

[Chris Jacks]

I am creating a Confluence Database that will have a field named "Product". Field type is "Tag".

I have a notepad file with a list of 100 or so products, each on a new line.

How can I get this list of products created as tags without having to copy+paste one at a time?

[Kristian Klima]

HI @Chris Jacks and welcome to the Community

You can import a CSV to a specific column of the database (three dots menu next to the Database Search field) - click Import and follow the instructions. You just need to copy paste your notepad entries into a spreadsheet (or into a text editor and then convert text to table).

Or you can copy paste a column from a spreadsheet editor into a database column.

HOWEVER... I only got it working with Text, not with Tag. And sadly, conversion doesn't work.

Having said that, there might be a workaround, I found a couple solving different issues, more on that in my article here).

I'm sharing the above hoping that it might take you the right track.

[Chris Jacks]

Thanks Kristian

HOWEVER... I only got it working with Text, not with Tag

That confirms my findings also. That it cannot be done as tags.

I want to use the type "tag" so that I can add some level of control for consistency.

Thanks for the article post to. I don't think it quite offers a solution for my problem (feel free to correct me if wrong) but there's certainly some other useful use case examples there. Nice one!