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[IDEA] When exporting a channel, in the tags do not add the channel ids of other channels #261

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@BlackElkX

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When you export a channel, the used tags are also added. For each tag, all the channels having this tag their ids are added in a list.
This makes the export ridiculous large and this makes no sense at all, because nothing happens with this list.

In the overview of the tags in OIE (and Mirth too) you se a number that has the meaning of the quantity of channels that have that tag. But: this number is not based on the real situation, it is the concatinates list based on the lists found in all channels and counting all unique channel ids.

If you want to clean up tags without channels, you cannot see this, because the number is not correct.

Describe your use case
To be able to manage tags, this number must be correct.

Describe the solution you'd like
The export has only the tag, with color, but not with te channel ids.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Creating a tool to clean up this in the export. If you do this manual, it just works, so a tool is a solution.

Additional context
We also have a documentation tool that depends on this tags. I am not interested in the tags without channels. When you get the tags via the api, you get the same wrong channelids.

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  1. ChristopherSchultz commented on Apr 1, 2026

    @ChristopherSchultz

    This could be considered information leakage as well: you want to share a channel online but it inexplicably includes unrelated details about your environment? Surprise!

  2. eddcomeau commented on Apr 6, 2026

    @eddcomeau
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