# Better access to tag provider tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/better-access-to-tag-provider-tags/22719>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/better-access-to-tag-provider-tags/22719 "2019-02-20T17:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrogers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mrogers/32/4110_2.png) [@mrogers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mrogers)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/better-access-to-tag-provider-tags/22719/1 "2019-02-20T17:08:26Z")

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Bad title I know but I’m not sure what else to call it. I’m wondering if there are any plans to make it easier to just find a list of tags in a tag provider? A while ago I made a UDT that would essentially do a lot of browseTags() calls on the gateway side that does this, and I’ve found a lot of uses for this information. It’d be great if it was easier to access though. I think one time I even tried to access the internal tag manager somehow (was a long time ago, I forget exactly what it was) and even there, I couldn’t find an actual list of tags.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/better-access-to-tag-provider-tags/22719/2 "2019-02-27T19:25:28Z")

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Hi,

I don’t think it’ll be in 8.0.0, but shortly after (probably like 8.0.2… we’ll put out more details about our release plans soon) we want to do 2 things in regards to this:

1. Even further enhanced system.tag.browse, or perhaps a new system.tag.query, for use in your project (very similar to alarm status query in terms of flexibility of matching arbitrary property conditions)
2. A new advanced Tag browse/list tool in the designer, built on top of that, to let you query tags and view them in a table.

Basically, we’ve heard from a variety of users that the need a better way to get an overview or report of all the tags in their system- which is what I take your question to be based on. If you have a different goal, I think #1 alone would help you.