Deleted tags persist in omni automation

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Has anyone come across deleted tags cluttering the listed tags in the omni automation interface? Is there a way to filter them out?

It appears that flattenedTags retains deleted tags. e.g. flattenedTags[5] returns

[object Tag: Deleted_Tag_Name] {active: true, added: Sat Nov 17 2007 20:32:12 GMT-0500 (EST), after: [object Tag.ChildInsertionLocation], allowsNextAction: true, availableTasks: , before: [object Tag.ChildInsertionLocation], beginning: [object Tag.ChildInsertionLocation], children: , effectiveActive: false, ending: [object Tag.ChildInsertionLocation], flattenedChildren: , flattenedTags: , id: [object ObjectIdentifier: Tag k71uSgtwI1t], modified: Sat Nov 17 2007 20:46:44 GMT-0500 (EST), name: ā€œDeleted_Tag_Nameā€, parent: [object Tag: Deleted_Tag_Deleted_Parent], projects: , remainingTasks: , status: [object Tag.Status: Active], tags: , tasks: } = $5

If I try to navigate to the tag with omnifocus:///tag/Deleted_Tag_Name or omnifocus:///tag/k71uSgtwI1t (the identifier), the tag is not found. (Using the id does nothing. Using the tag name shows an error message that the tag is not found.)

I donā€™t see a property on the tag that would let me filter it out. E.g. status is Active.

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In my case, flattenedTags doesnā€™t include deleted tags.

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Hmmm. Moi aussi ā€“ I donā€™t see any previously deleted tags as the window capture shows.
Also, is there an ā€œactiveā€ property available? Which version are you using?

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Thanks for checking. The tag status is ā€œactiveā€. I see this on both Mac and iPad. I will do a bug report.

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For posterity: Support was able to help. I had a dropped top level tag but the child tags were not dropped. The status does not cascade to the children as expected in the omni automation interface.

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This is the behaviour in the app, itā€™s not specific to Automation. The ā€˜droppedā€™ status on tags and folders does not get inherited by children nodes, unlike projects and actions. If you show ā€˜Allā€™ in the Tags perspective, you will see your dropped tag and can expand it to reveal its still-active children.

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