Creating tag groups and tags

When used in policies, tags and tag groups help to determine the placement of provisioned, user-requested services within the cloud. You can create policy tags and assign them to:

To create or manage tag groups and tags from the Service Blueprint workspace, see Managing-service-blueprint-tags.

For more information and a suggested tagging strategy, see Policy-management-overview and Tagging-recommendations-and-examples.

Before you begin

• Tag names and tag group names can only contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, underscores, and dashes.
• Before applying tags to cloud resources, consider creating all of the tag groups and tags that you expect to need. This practice ensures that you apply tags consistently, and it helps you manage your policies more efficiently.

To create a tag group and its tags

1. When creating or editing one of the taggable objects listed above, click the tag icon .
    The Tag Details dialog box is displayed:

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2. To create a tag group:
   1. Click Manage Tags.
       The Manage Tags dialog box is displayed:

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   2. Click Add Tag Group .
       An empty blue row for a new tag group is inserted in the Tag Groups table.
   3. Click the new row in the Tag Group column and type the name for the new tag group.
   4. To enter a description for the tag group, click the new row in the Description column and type a description.
   5. Click Save Tag Group .
       The new tag group is saved in the Tag Groups table.
3. To add tags to the tag group:
   1. Click the name of the tag group to which you want to add tags.
   2. In the Tags table, click Add Tag .
       An empty blue row for a new tag is inserted in the Tags table.
   3. Click the new row in the Tag column and type the name for the new tag.
   4. To enter a description for the tag, click the new row in the Description column and type a description.
   5. Click Save Tag .
   6. Continue to add tags to the group until you are finished.
4. Click Close.

To apply a tag to an object, see Assigning-a-tag-to-an-object.

Related topics

Creating-policies
Assigning-a-tag-to-an-object