# Need help with tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 24, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678 "2021-02-24T16:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouton\_Noir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mouton\_Noir](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mouton_Noir)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/1 "2021-02-24T16:15:48Z")
Hi, I’d like to use tags to select tasks I launch. I found documentations about how to limit playbook, role… execution to the tagged tasks l choose from adhoc command (-t option). But I need to do the same from another playbook… and I can’t find anything about that ex : extract from the main.yml from role “myrole” : ---
**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/2 "2021-02-24T16:23:11Z")
There is no capability to limit tags from within a playbook. Tags can only be limited from the CLI via -t/–tags ---
**Author:** ![Mouton\_Noir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mouton\_Noir](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mouton_Noir)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/3 "2021-02-24T16:39:12Z")
Thanks Matt for your quick answer… Even if it doesn’t arrange me… 😉 It’s weird this is not possible. I’m surprised. I guess I’m not the first one to consider doing this. Is there a reason why ? Did you (or someone else) hear about a “trick” to get a similar behaviour using something else ? Regards ---
**Author:** ![Mouton\_Noir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mouton\_Noir](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mouton_Noir)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/4 "2021-02-24T17:05:27Z")
I finally found a “trick” that made it for me : Every task in the main.yml from “myrole” are conditioned with a different value for a variable myowntags ex: when: myowntags == “fst-openshot” Then, in a taskfile or playbook, I can select the tasks I want with something like : - name: test include\_role: name: myrole vars: myowntags: “fst-openshot” As this role is only dedicated to pick up some tasks when needed (not applied to any group as itself), it makes it for me. ---
**Author:** ![vbotka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/vbotka/32/359_2.png) [@vbotka](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vbotka)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/5 "2021-02-24T17:29:25Z")
> Every task in the main.yml from "myrole" are conditioned with a different > value for a variable myowntags > ex: > when: myowntags == "fst-openshot" > > Then, in a taskfile or playbook, I can select the tasks I want with > something like : > - name: test >   include\_role: >     name: myrole >       vars: >         myowntags: "fst-openshot" > > As this role is only dedicated to pick up some tasks when needed (not > applied to any group as itself), it makes it for me. Next option would be to fragment main.yml and put the tasks into the separate files, e.g   \> cat main.yml   - import\_tasks: tasks01.yml   - import\_tasks: tasks02.yml     ... This would keep the original functionality untouched. Now, create files with the logical blocks you'd like to use, e.g.   shell: cat fst-openshot.yml   - import\_tasks: tasks07.yml   - import\_tasks: tasks25.yml   - import\_tasks: tasks33.yml Then, it would be possible to include such blocks selectively, e.g.   - name: test     include\_role:       name: myrole       tasks\_from: "{{ myowntags }}.yml" ---
**Author:** ![Mouton\_Noir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mouton\_Noir](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mouton_Noir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/6 "2021-02-25T11:12:05Z")
Thanks Vladimir I didn’t heard about tasks\_from. I’ll test it too ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-tags/34678/7 "2021-02-25T16:30:11Z")
We've seen this requested several times, but it is normally an indicator of people making plays/roles way too big. So we recommend actually splitting the playbook/roles into the more manageable units instead of implementing this kind of functionality or using a workaround via conditionals.