# Idea: --list-tasks show task's tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Tags:** galaxy-ng\ **Created:** [February 20, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/idea-list-tasks-show-tasks-tags/17579 "2015-02-20T18:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leonel\_Galan\_Recinos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@Leonel\_Galan\_Recinos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leonel_Galan_Recinos)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/idea-list-tasks-show-tasks-tags/17579/1 "2015-02-20T18:00:16Z")
Re post from [ansible-project](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/edmbZofB67I) I’ve been learning Ansible in the last couple of months and when using roles from Ansible Galaxy, it’s hard to know which tags each tasks has. I’ve search and couldn’t find a way to show all tags a task has, when listing all tasks (–list-tasks). I can build from source and do a small change on [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/bin/ansible-playbook#L251](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/bin/ansible-playbook#L251) from: `print ' %s' % task.name` to: `print ' %s - %s' % ( [task.name](http://task.name/), stringc(', '.join(task.tags), 'blue') )` And it works great: `Update caches - all Create general configuration file for APT - all Install apt packages - all Install packages - all Update parameters - all Creating groups - all, configuration, groups, users Per-user group creation - all, configuration, users ...` Except: - I don’t know what’s the base interface for adding this: Modify existing --list-tasks, add a second flag: --list-tasks-with-tags, or … - I wanted to get a feel if this would be considered useful by others. Thanks for taking the time to read my post, I’m willing to submit a PR with your suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Leonel\_Galan\_Recinos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@Leonel\_Galan\_Recinos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leonel_Galan_Recinos)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/idea-list-tasks-show-tasks-tags/17579/2 "2015-03-11T18:06:03Z")
Disregard, this was better implemented and merged already by in Brian Coca in [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10414](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10414) ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/idea-list-tasks-show-tasks-tags/17579/3 "2015-03-11T18:24:58Z")
Sorry, I had missed this post, I actually added that after someone mentioned it on twitter, since I had just modified a lot of the tag code. I might have done it earlier if I had seen your post :-).