# Bidirectional Cell Binding?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590 "2018-09-07T19:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jbowers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jbowers)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590/1 "2018-09-07T19:28:35Z")

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Is it possible to set a cell binding to be bi-directional?

I am trying to use templates to organize multiple blocks of numeric displays with title labels but it’s starting to look like that’s not valid.

If there isn’t a way to have cell bindings be bi-directional, can that feature be added? It seems odd for it to not be available already.

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**Author:** ![m.edmonson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@m.edmonson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/m.edmonson)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590/2 "2018-09-07T19:33:42Z")

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are you wanting to write to the UDTs?

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**Author:** ![jbowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jbowers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jbowers)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590/3 "2018-09-07T19:45:03Z")

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Not for this instance.  
Purely for the sake of organization, I have a template to give a dataset and title to. I’ll have like 12 of them, so it’s cleaner to use a template and dataset than manually grouping all the values individually.

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**Author:** ![m.edmonson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@m.edmonson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/m.edmonson)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590/4 "2018-09-07T20:14:29Z")

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I think im missing something. bidirectional binding is generally used for read/write

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**Author:** ![jbowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jbowers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jbowers)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bidirectional-cell-binding/19590/5 "2018-09-07T20:16:35Z")

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I think that’s all it’s used for, not just generally.

It just doesn’t seem to be readily available on cell bindings. I am curious if I am missing something or if the feature simply doesn’t exist.