# Block Items with many Items

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/block-items-with-many-items/85078>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/block-items-with-many-items/85078 "2024-02-01T07:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Spachinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Thomas\_Spachinger](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Thomas_Spachinger)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/block-items-with-many-items/85078/1 "2024-02-01T07:41:48Z")

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Hello,

i am about to create a Blcokgroup to automaticly update counter from our machine tags to the db. we are talking about 200 machines. for each entry i want the actual timestamp, quality code and an id (what is easy.  
From each machine (UDT Tag generated) i want the equipment id, target and ofc the counter.

Is there a way to add fill the items dynamicly with a script or within an json that i can import, or do i have to manually add each machines id, target and partcount to each block item list?

havnt found something yet ☹

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/block-items-with-many-items/85078/2 "2024-02-01T13:01:39Z")

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For that many identical machines, I'd use a script on a gateway scheduled event to do the whole thing--no transaction group at all.