# Column tags in dbt docs static website

**URL:** <https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160>\
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**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160 "2021-10-07T22:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![gauresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@gauresh](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/gauresh)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/1 "2021-10-07T22:03:32Z")

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Hello,

Do column tags in schema.yml file show up on the DBT documentation static website ([http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080))?  
If yes, where do I see it? I can see model tags but don’t see column level tags.  
Please help.

```auto
models:
    - name: dim_branch
      description: "branch location table. This table is at the location grain."
      columns:
          - name: phone_number
            description: "Phone number associated with each planner location. PII data"
            tags: ["pii"]

```

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![gomezn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@gomezn](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/gomezn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/2 "2021-10-15T22:53:29Z")

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Have you tried meta instead.

I do something like this

meta:  
classification: pii

This shows on docs

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**Author:** ![gauresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@gauresh](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/gauresh)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/3 "2021-10-15T23:12:07Z")

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Thank you @gomezn . That worked.  
Do you happen to have a link or something for all meta types for DBT?

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**Author:** ![gomezn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@gomezn](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/gomezn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/4 "2021-10-15T23:45:14Z")

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Meta can be anything you want, that is just a convention I use.

> **[meta | dbt Docs](https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/resource-configs/meta)**
>
> \* v0.21.0: meta is now a config that can be set in dbt\_project.yml and as a config yaml property for some resource types. It is applied hierarchically and merges on a per-key basis.

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**Author:** ![gauresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@gauresh](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/gauresh)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/5 "2021-10-16T00:20:20Z")

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Thank you for your help @gomezn

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**Author:** ![brad-meru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.getdbt.com/brad-meru/32/1055_2.png) [@brad-meru](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/brad-meru)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/column-tags-in-dbt-docs-static-website/3160/6 "2022-05-10T10:26:46Z")

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This works to populate the field in dbt docs but it’s not searchable. Are there any plans to either make meta searchable in dbt docs or build out column tags?