Reverse flow applied tags

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The issue you are facing:

We have a group folder with roughly 50k files and automatically applied tag.
This tag is to protect changing files from anything else than a desktop client.

My question is how to reverse, untag files in that group folder?

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You can use the a File Action flow to unassign tags (see: tag_file_unassign)

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Thanks Raudius,

I’ve been looking at the File Actions app in the past.
I guess this would work… However, I would need to learn scripting in Lua for which I have no time or will power.

I know it is not elegant but I will probably restore the files and run something like occ groupfolder:scan while everyone is on holiday (December 25th) :rofl:

On a more serious note, I’m surprised there’s not a single example on how to remove a tag with flow nor a question on this forum. Surely, I can’t be the only one who used a tag in vain?

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The Lua script should be quite simple:

tag_name = "Completed content"
file = get_input_files()[1]

found_tags = tags_find({name= tag_name, name_exact= true})

if (#found_tags > 0) then
  tag = found_tags[1]
  tag_file_unassign(file, tag)
end
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