# Allowing customers to edit alarm pipelines

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-customers-to-edit-alarm-pipelines/14272>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-customers-to-edit-alarm-pipelines/14272 "2017-05-11T21:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-customers-to-edit-alarm-pipelines/14272/1 "2017-05-11T21:06:16Z")

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Is there any way to make pipelines editable by customers? To allow them for example to change delay settings or the number of times something goes around a loop before being escalated.

It would seem that pipelines need to be able to access external data - maybe by setting a property using the Tag expression function?

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**Author:** ![adam.morales](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/adam.morales/32/3405_2.png) [@adam.morales](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adam.morales)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-customers-to-edit-alarm-pipelines/14272/2 "2017-05-11T21:41:05Z")

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There is no way to allow access to resources such as the pipeline, but as you said, the pipeline’s logic could depend on tag values, which are writable by operators.

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/allowing-customers-to-edit-alarm-pipelines/14272/3 "2017-05-12T11:19:46Z")

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I got this working by reading a tag value into a local pipeline property using an expression like

```auto
{[tag provider]tag name}

```

However, I couldn’t get it to work using the ‘tag’ expression function - this always returns a null value.