Children Inherit Parent Tags

[Rodion_Y]

Can each child/sub-item automatically inherit the tags associated with the parent (at least for search purposes)? That would make a huge difference using tags and searching across the board.

[Sara]

Yes, or some way to display the children of a tagged item in the search list. This would be SO helpful!

[Stephen_Dewitt]

Yes I REALLY want this to and prefer the search route, less messy - parenthastag:#todo etc

[Stephen_Dewitt]

Actually, after further consideration I am not sure the search route is best and think that an option (just like the ‘make children numbered’ option) to make all children of a given parent list inherit the tags of that parent would be better. This would be supremely helpful in all database-like situations like customer relations management etc etc, in particular when you want to search for a child which has a given tag within a parent which has a different given tag… the search route would only allow you to check if the parent has a tag, while the ‘option tick’ route would allow it to apply to grandparents, great grandparents etc …

[Bjarke_Ebert]

Sara, if I understand your request correctly, then this is already possible: just unfold the nodes of the search result.
But of course this only works for one node at a time, it will not show children of all found nodes - if that is what you meant

[Bjarke_Ebert]

This feature request is very similiar to mine

Find search terms in parent nodes as well

I suggest an improved semantics of AND search (i.e. the default when there are multiple search terms) Rationale: As this is a tree-based document system, often words in a parent node are not repeated in child nodes, since the child already lives in a context. But when searching, this context is not taken into account to find child nodes. Example: + A + + B + + C + D + + B + + C When searching for B, I find all Bs in the document, which might be way too many to handle. When searching for A B,…

I’m not sure what you mean by inherit tags, if it is not for search - is there any other way than search, where inheriting a tag would make a difference?

And one minor detail. If a parent node has tag #foo, then each child would inherit #foo, so a search for #foo would also find all the children, which is probably not intended.
That is why in my proposal I suggest that at least of of the search terms must be found in the target node.

[Rodion_Y]

I think we are talking about the same idea. Basically, I would love to be able to search within children of items tagged with a particular tag. For instance, if I have a tag called “#poems” and they are spread over a number of documents and hierarchies, its would be great to limit the search to #poems only and search their contents. Right now the only way I can do that, is if I manually tag every child item in each poem with the same tag and then changing the search parameter to include the tag and the search for phrase.

[Adam_Bukovinszki]

Can somebody add this to the Trello dev board to be more visible?
It frustrates me that I don’t see this feature at least among mid term dev plans.
I have designed a very efficient new workflow method for Dynalist, but it would only function as intended if a Parent node’s tag would qualify in search for the children nodes as well.
I dont see any serious drawback, but tremendous advantages.