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chiming in! I agree that it makes sense to remove all mentions of "folder" and just categorize everything by tag. We can clarify this by taking the tags out of the details section of the table and adding a column to the library just for tags where you can click on the tag to pull up the view of just that tag.

As for the forum attachments, it seems that by default these are not tagged and can not be tagged. Is this correct? If we want to treat them like other library items, it would make sense to have them be tagged "forum attachment" by default and allow them to be able to be managed along with the other media. Would we want this or do we want to treat them differently than the other media in the library? If we think that we want to treat forum attachments differently than other library media, we could have the default screen set to NOT show the forum attachments. One way to do this is by including a little checkbox that is de-selected by default to not include them in the library view unless selected or just remove them from the library all together (my preference for simplicity)

When it comes to the tag management and filtering,

The main question here is how granular we want to get with this. Do we want to be able to on the main library screen, view by just all or one tags at a time OR be able to select multiple tags to show (in a multi-select chip UI) I took a ROUGH look at what the chip UI could look like and it seems like it might be overkill and it makes sense to stick with the above.

I'll think through what the management of the tags looks like after I get some feedback here :)

Thanks for this summary. The first of the bullet points seems straightforward enough.

The second one needs some more thought. We don't currently allow items to be tagged at the time of attachment to forum posts. Would we be adding this? Or would it just be available later on, working from the Library (rather than forum) view? If so, how? We don't currently have an 'edit' mode for those items in the same way that we do for other item types. (Like you, I think that the 'forum-attachment' tag is redundant with a checkbox. The checkbox would not be powered by a tag; 'forum-attachment' is internally a 'type' alongside 'bp-doc', 'bp-group-attachment', 'external-link'.)

Adding a library tab default in group settings is technically possible and not too hard, but it's a pretty specific bit of UI configuration for what I would suggest is a fairly edge-case use. But I leave it up to the team whether it's really "edge". Pinning or "sticky" is technically harder and I would prefer to break it out into its own item.

Thanks for the clarifications, Boone. I hadn't realized that we didn't have an edit mode for a forum attachment item once it's already in the library. It definitely didn't seem doable to tag/edit as part of the upload/addition process, which is understandably geared toward the forum post itself.

Looking at how it works presently, it is a little confusing when one clicks on the ellipsis (see screenshot) for a forum attachment item in the library and selects edit. You get taken to the edit window for its associated forum post, which I suppose could be helpful, but it's a little redundant with the Details column which also links to the forum post.

Isn't it more intuitive to be able to "edit" the actual forum attachment item if you click on that, and you would get a screen at least somewhat like what you see for non-attachment library items? See a screenshot for what that screen is like as well.

I understand that you might not be able to edit the description, as that always links automatically to the associated forum post, or even the title, as it gets frozen to what it was in the post, and perhaps we could indicate this graphically. But shouldn't you at least be able to delete it on this screen? I actually can't find a way right now to delete a forum attachment item from a library. And if we go this far, then could we also include the folder interface here too?

That is more than I expected to write about this, but I figured we have come this far. Sara, do you have thoughts about this?

Here are the screenshots of the library with the drawer opening to reveal the item details and the ability to edit it

Thank you, Sara! This is looking great. One thought that I have -- and I don't know whether others will share it or agree -- is that with the modal open, it's a little hard to differentiate the modal space from the rest of the items on the screen. I wanted to see how we handled that on Manifold, and it looks like we darken other parts of the screen/background when the modal is open there. I'm not sure whether that is possible/feasible for us on the Commons, but I've attached screenshots for you to consider.

It's also possible that this would be a non-issue when actually working with the interface as you've designed it here.

I darkened the tray slightly to differentiate it from the other lines. It's not a modal so we don't need to darken the other parts of the screen. It's a tray that opens.

Here's the figma link https://www.figma.com/design/E4oYOOSpqn6aX6Qa9O8AO2/CUNY-Design---Fall-2025?node-id=14659-4690

Attached are screenshots from the file. It shows how we can tag with multiple tags on upload and also show a preview of the file when uploading. If it's better dev wise to not show a preview after upload, I can design what that looks like.