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# Application Tags

Application tags help you organize and categorize applications across the OX platform.

You can use tags to:

* Organize related applications.
* Simplify filtering throughout the OX platform.
* Generate reports for groups of applications.
* Define application scopes.
* Scope policies, workflows, and other OX capabilities.

You can assign existing tags, remove assigned tags, or create new tags.

### Tag types

OX supports the following types of application tags:

<table><thead><tr><th width="224">Tag type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>OX-generated tags</td><td>Tags that OX automatically assigns based on application metadata, such as the source control provider, cloud provider, programming language, package manager, or other detected attributes. OX-generated tags are read-only.</td></tr><tr><td>User-defined tags</td><td>Custom tags that you create and manage to organize applications according to your organization's needs. You can use these tags for filtering, reporting, policies, workflows, application scopes, and other OX capabilities.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Best practices

* Use a consistent naming convention for tags across your organization.
* Use tags to group related applications, such as [business units](/generate-reports/built-in-reports/executive-reports.md#creating-business-units), teams, environments, or projects.
* Avoid creating multiple tags that represent the same logical group.
* Use tags consistently when defining [application scopes](broken://pages/2OEAUmhkBPZnqcSIPLGU).

### Configure application tags

You can configure tags for one or more applications simultaneously.

**To configure application tags:**

1. Go to **Applications**.
2. Select one or more applications.
3. Select **Manage Tags**.

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4. In the **Add or Edit Tags** dialog, do one or more of the following:

* Select one or more existing tags.
* Clear assigned tags to remove them.
* Enter a new tag name to create a new tag.

5. Select **Apply**.

### Related information

* [Managing applications](/scan-and-analyze-with-ox/analyzing-scan-results/applications/managing-applications.md)
* [Scopes](broken://pages/2OEAUmhkBPZnqcSIPLGU)
* [Applications](broken://pages/g9htknA2LyUsOVD8onnT)


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