Remove tags from assets in collections

Tags help identify and group assets for better searching and browsing. You can remove tags that are no longer relevant from all assets in a collection, including the folders and subfolders in it. Depending on the number of assets in the folder, it might take some time to remove tags and for them to be removed in searches. If you have mapped specific files to a folder in P4 DAM and remove a tag from that folder, the tag is removed from all files in the folder.

To remove tags from an asset, see Remove tags from assets.To remove tags from all assets in a folder, including subfolders, see Remove tags from assets in folders.

By default, you can add and remove tags to a maximum of 10,000 assets at once. If you try to tag or untag more assets than allowed, the tag action is blocked and an error is displayed showing the maximum number of assets that can be tagged. You can reduce the number of assets to tag and perform multiple tagging actions, or contact your P4 DAM administrator and ask them to increase the tag limit. See Configure the P4 DAM tag file limit.

If any file in a collection in P4 DAM is locked, you cannot remove a tag from that collection. The operation will fail and show an error message.

  1. Open the project that contains the collection.

  2. Select the collection you are removing the tag from.

  3. In the upper right of the page, directly below the Profile button Image of the User profile button, select the vertical ellipsis button Image of the Vertical ellipsis button and select Remove tags.

  4. In the Remove tags dialog, select X on a tag to remove it.

    The tag is removed and added to the Removed tags section of the dialog. If you remove a tag by mistake, select Undo Undo removing the tag button image on the tag.

  5. When you have finished, select Save changes.

    The changes are saved to the assets in the collection, including folders and subfolders.