# Access Alarm Associated Data Property From Client?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-alarm-associated-data-property-from-client/12124>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 14, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-alarm-associated-data-property-from-client/12124 "2016-09-14T23:20:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mattjdial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mattjdial](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mattjdial)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-alarm-associated-data-property-from-client/12124/1 "2016-09-14T23:20:14Z")

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Hi,

I’m wanting to give users the ability to view/modify the string stored in Associated Data attached to a tag’s alarm. It’s an effort to provide an interface for end users to dictate their own Alarm Description during a Voice Notification.

One method would be to bind to the tag’s description, but that would require unique bindings at each alarm instance (referencing the [.]tagname.description) as well as preventing a second alarm instance, and I’d prefer to keep the property generic.

Thanks for the help,  
Matthew

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-alarm-associated-data-property-from-client/12124/2 "2016-09-15T03:21:55Z")

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you should be able to use the editTag function

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**Author:** ![anna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@anna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anna)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-alarm-associated-data-property-from-client/12124/3 "2017-02-23T00:49:43Z")

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```auto
system.tag.editTag(tagPath="Path/to/your/tag", alarmConfig = {"Alarm name": [["AssociatedDataName", "Value", "Some string"]]})
```