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title: Allowing users to tag documents on the Form tab
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can allow editors and other users to tag documents on the Form tab. This makes it possible for tagging documents when they are being created. Users can also tag existing documents without having to access the **Properties -> Metadata** tab of the **Pages** application.

To allow users to tag documents on the **Form** tab, add a new field to the document type that you want to allow tagging on the **Form** tab for.

1. Open the **Document types** application.
2. **Edit** the document type for which you want to allow tagging on the **Form** tab.
3. Switch to the **Fields** tab.
4. (Optional) Click (**...**) and create a **New category** for the new document tagging field.
5. Click **New field**.
6. Fill in the properties of the new field as follows:
   1. **Field type**: Document field
   2. **Field name**: DocumentTags
   3. **Field caption**: Document Tags (for example)
   4. **Field description**: any description that you want users to see when hovering over the field caption
   5. **Form control**: Tag selector
7. (Optional) Restrict the [tag group](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/configuring-tags/creating-tag-groups.md) that users can choose from using the **Tag group ID** field.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/allowing-users-to-tag-documents-on-the-form-tab/creating_field_to_tag_documents_on_form_tab.png)
8. **Save** the field.

Now, whenever users edit this documents of this type on the **Form** tab or create new documents of this type, they can tag the documents as well.

![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/allowing-users-to-tag-documents-on-the-form-tab/tagging_documents_on_form_tab.png) 

> **Info:** If you need to create a custom document type with a tag selector, the tag selector must be bound to a system field.

Related pages

- [Tagging documents](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/tagging-documents.md)
- [Displaying tags on a page](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/configuring-tags/displaying-tags-on-a-page.md)

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