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Is it possible (without hacking core) to extend CiviCRM tags with additional metadata? Basically I want to apply custom fields to tags just like I would to contacts or relationships.

Can you give a more detailed example? I'm not sure i understand exactly what you're after since custom fields are part of individual/organizational records which also have tags.

It might be nice to be able to group or categorize tags so I can control which ones show up where and when. I understand that may be against the "spirit of tagging", but nonetheless...

Hello,
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Cynthia

Thanks. Tag visibility control/hierarchical organization would address part but not all of my problem. I basically want to layer richer information on top of a tag. Very domain-specific, thus hard to explain. Will probably end up building my own external mechanism and using the tag API to integrate the two. Assuming I do that, can I use CiviCRM custom search to search against data in an external system and use those results to refine a native CiviCRM search?