# \[BUG-12312\] Cannot bind (direct or indirect) to array tag **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [January 4, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684 "2019-01-04T04:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@davidf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/davidf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/1 "2019-01-04T04:47:42Z")
Create an array tag, such as a Boolean Array or String Array. Copy the path to one of the elements, it will be like: [default]SomeArrayTag[0] This path shows as “Bad\_NotFound” in Perspective bindings. If you instead bind to [default]SomeArrayTag, Perspective will provide all of the elements: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/9/9f792b3f708983ab9d33a6b7acf2529e1e4fb2d9.png) This seems like a bug since it is often necessary to access only one element, and I don’t think using an expression to extract the element is correct. ---
**Author:** ![anjoroge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/anjoroge/32/6698_2.png) [@anjoroge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anjoroge)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/2 "2019-01-14T16:40:28Z")
Was able to reproduce the issue and will create an internal bug report since it does make sense that you should be able to access a specific element at a time. ---
**Author:** ![awalker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/awalker/32/6874_2.png) [@awalker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/awalker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/3 "2019-02-04T16:39:12Z")
This issue was fixed in the build that was uploaded today (2/4). Please let us know if you continue to see this behavior after upgrading. ---
**Author:** ![eric.petke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7feea3/32.png) [@eric.petke](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eric.petke)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/4 "2019-09-17T14:20:16Z")
Hello. It look like the problem have been solved for normal Tag, but i am facing it with a Client Tag. I can not access a specific position of the array or bind to it. i can just get all of it at once. It also don’t work with Dataset. i can’t by bind to an entry of the Dataset( is it even possible ?) Can you please also have a look on it? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![alexlu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alexlu/32/65795_2.png) [@alexlu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alexlu)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/5 "2019-09-17T18:37:13Z")
It does appear that array client tags have the same tag binding issue. I’ve created another bug ticket to get this fixed (Bug-15002). To bind to a dataset element, you can use an expression binding: `{[Client]Dataset Tag}[row, col]` Until there’s a fix for array client tags, a similar expression binding can be used as a workaround by casting the tag value to a dataset first and then referencing it as such: `toDataset({[Client]Array Tag})[row, 0]` ---
**Author:** ![eric.petke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7feea3/32.png) [@eric.petke](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eric.petke)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12312-cannot-bind-direct-or-indirect-to-array-tag/21684/6 "2019-09-18T07:49:15Z")
Thank you for your help. Until the bug it fix i will work with Dataset and expression binding as you suggest. 😀