# Components tagged, then grouped

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/components-tagged-then-grouped/320495>\
**Category:** SketchUp\
**Tags:** components\
**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/components-tagged-then-grouped/320495 "2025-03-24T14:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![StephenC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/stephenc/32/261021_2.png) [@StephenC](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/StephenC)\
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Scenario:  
You have 3 individual components all with same tag assignment. You create a group with these 3 components and the Group entity is listed as Untagged.

Question:  
Is this by design since the newly created Group is actually treated as a new entity?

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**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\
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Yes. That’s by design. You could then give the parent group a different tag if you wanted. The parent group is certainly treated as a new entity.

Suppose you had a different tag on each of the components. You could control their visibility individually. If you create a group to contain the three components, it could be given a different tag which would allow you to hide all three components in a single click.

Prior to the advent of tag folders grouping components was a way to manage object visibility. For example in a kitchen you might have the appliances, each with a different tag, grouped together with another tag called “Appliances” put on it. You could then choose to hide all of the appliances with a single click on the Appliances tag or you could hide just the Fridge. Now I think tag folders are a better way yo manage that kind of thing. Avoids unneeded excessive nesting which generally makes it harder to work with the model..