# Add Instance description to an Alarm UDT

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-instance-description-to-an-alarm-udt/83812>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [January 4, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-instance-description-to-an-alarm-udt/83812 "2024-01-04T21:05:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brad\_Niemi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Brad\_Niemi1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brad_Niemi1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-instance-description-to-an-alarm-udt/83812/1 "2024-01-04T21:05:09Z")

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I created a UDT to take a Tag and assigned numerous members to the tag. I set an alarm to trigger when the InAlarm tag is set to high. I want to display on the Alarm (History, summary & Alarms) displays to display the description and not the instance. But I have not found a way yet.  
Here is my UDT

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/e/6e2931f51b9c176113d9b4d644ffb188dbea08b7.png)  
and the Alarm setup  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/a/2ac8a35b8e4d200101be03c93182e86e43c75ec1.png)  
I need to be able to enter the desc in my instance tag (not an OPC)  
thanks