Greetings @old_school , 

Thanks for raising this — I can clarify what’s going on and share practical workarounds.

What’s happening

• Genie spaces don’t support filtering by tags in the Genie UI. Tags on Genie spaces can be used for organization, but search/filter in Genie isn’t supported by those tags. That’s by design today, not an eventual consistency issue.

• Unity Catalog tags are searchable only via the workspace search UI for tables/views, not inside Genie. You can search and filter tables/views by tag keys and values in the global workspace search, but tags aren’t usable to search dashboards or Genie spaces themselves.

Recommended workarounds

• Use Workspace Search to find tables by tag, then add them to your Genie space.
  Search in the workspace top bar for the tag key/value, filter to Tables, and add the matching tables via Genie’s Configure > Data panel.

• If you need “immediate” classification inside a space, use the Genie knowledge store metadata instead of UC tags.
  Edit column descriptions, add synonyms, and define table relationships locally in the space; these edits take effect immediately within the space and don’t rely on tag indexing.

   

• Force a refresh of space sampling by re-adding the table.
  Remove the table from Configure > Data and add it back. This re-triggers Genie's data sampling and can help pick up recent metadata changes (independent of tag search behavior).

• Programmatic check of tag assignments if you need verification right away.
  Query Unity Catalog information schema tables (for example, INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_TAGS) to confirm the tag exists on the asset; this is immediate from UC and can be used to build views or lists you then include in Genie.

Notes and limits to be aware of

• Tag-based filtering in Genie is not currently supported. Even though you can assign tags to Genie spaces and UC assets, tag search/filter is limited to tables/views in the workspace search UI, not within Genie spaces.

• Tag search is exact-match only in workspace search. Use the precise tag key/value; fuzzy matching isn’t supported.

Hope this helps, Louis.

I’m noticing that newly added tags on tables are not appearing immediately in Genie Space for filtering. It looks like an eventual consistency issue — the tag took almost 2 days to show up. Is there any workaround or a way to force a faster sync?

Hi @Louis_Frolio ,

Thanks for your inputs.

Is there a way to add tables / views via SDK / API to Genie spaces?