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  • January 30, 2015
  • 47 replies
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Requesting a user-friendly way to manage the tags/labels we apply to articles in Help Center. There is currently not a way to delete a "retired" or misspelled tag and those tags continue to appear as we type label names. 

When the retired tag is nearly identical to the preferred tag, it is incorrectly selected more times than we'd like.

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Ed97
  • Newcomer
  • August 26, 2016

I agree! Any kind of label management would be very helpful. Having a list of all labels without having to use the API and then also be able to delete certain labels. I was really surprised that it is not possible to delete a label at all.


Sean65
  • April 5, 2017

Two years later, this doesn't seem to have changed much. All too easy to let duplicate/near-match/typo labels flood the labels selector. Would love a way to clean these up, merging duplicates and/or removing unused or erroneously created tags within the ZenDesk /hc UI.

That "merging duplicates" point is the one that makes this a little more than a quick 5 minute hack on the API. Would love to see an official, vendor-provided fix.


  • June 23, 2017

I agree that this needs to be added. The writing experience in ZD is basic to say the least,  and not being able to edit or delete labels is a real pain.


  • September 12, 2017

I agree with this post, I would like a way to easily bulk update labels without the API, especially now with Answer Bot.


  • November 29, 2017

UHHH -- I was just looking for the answer for how to delete labels that I have misspelled -- and I'm guessing from this post that there ISN'T anyway way through the ZenDesk UI.

This is even more problematic due to using labels in AnswerBot triggers.  Use the WRONG label and you don't get the articles you expect.

PLEASE ZENDESK -- this is a trivial high-school intern-type programming problem -- have someone put together a UI for deleting labels.  While you're at it -- in the list of labels, show the NUMBER of articles where that label has been used.


  • April 27, 2018

rebump please, Just moved into a new role, and having used zendesk previously I wanted to restructure and rebuild the help center and hopefully plan for big growth very soon. However, I need to rebuild the label strucutre and make it understandable....Reading this apparently we can't?


  • July 25, 2018

We too have a need to be able to delete old labels that are no longer used. I am finding articles tagged with labels that are meaningless as well as ones that are similar to other labels. A way to go through all of the labels we have set up and delete the ones that should no longer be used would be very helpful to maintain consistency. Right now it is a bit of a mess and will probably only get worse through the years. 


Nicole17
  • Employee
  • July 25, 2018

Thanks for the feedback, Maggie!


  • October 12, 2018

I've just started Day 1 of my trial and am excited to use ZenDesk, however seeing that there isn't a solution to something as simple as editing/deleting labels is a bit concerning. I hope a solution for this is created soon! Thank you :)


  • October 15, 2018

Hi! I'd just like to add a further voice that we need a way to search labels in the Manage Articles area and a way to merge labels that are redundant/misapplied


Georg11
  • October 22, 2018

We also need a label management badly. A simple list would be helpful and, of course, the possibility to delete and/or merge variants.


  • November 5, 2018

Yes, I agree... would also be great to have labels/tags available for translation into other languages without having to do this manually. We use the Transifex integration and this is currently not possible. 


  • January 17, 2019

YES PLEASE!  THIS!


  • February 27, 2019

Adding to the long litany of requests for the ability to delete/edit labels! Is anyone at Zendesk paying attention? Is this feature on the queue somewhere? PLEASE ADVISE!!!!!

 

 


  • April 13, 2019

+1

And I don't understand why the API still doesn't support deleting a label.


  • April 17, 2019

Still not able to delete and no comment from Zendesk Support...


Annie19
  • May 20, 2019

Adding a voice in support of the ability to View, Edit, and Delete labels, and a request for an update from Zendesk Support on a 4+ year old suggestion.

Echoing use cases noted above ... it is too easy to inadvertently add an incorrect label, then you have no way of removing it, and it becomes likely to be selected and used again in the future.  There is also no way for me to even view a simple list of current/existing labels.  Going to the All Articles list and filtering by Label does not bring up all Label options ... I have to already know which Labels exist in order to filter accordingly.


Please add the ability to manage labels! I've upvoted all of the comments above, but realize that also adding a post can help draw attention to the need so many customers have. This seems like a fundamental capability that should be included, and it's certainly a miss that it's not. 


  • June 6, 2019

This option is a no-brainer. If you add it, you should be able to edit/delete it.


Jay15
  • June 27, 2019

I also support all of the suggestions in this thread.  


  • July 18, 2019

Agree


Lenka14
  • September 2, 2019

+1

We also would like to be able to delete the labels. Yup, it is a no-brainer. 


  • October 29, 2019

Adding my vote here, though nothing new to say that hasn't been said already. If you can create labels, you should be able to manage them. It seems kind of crazy that this request is almost 4 years old now. 


Nicole17
  • Employee
  • October 29, 2019

Thanks for adding your voice and vote, Margie.


Karl18
  • December 23, 2019

+1