# Copying and pasting tags in Designer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 22, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321 "2011-09-22T20:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/1 "2011-09-22T20:28:54Z")
This may be the continuation of a topic I started earlier this year titled “Java Gateway Exception” but now the problem is different. I am running 7.2.8 on Linux Opensuse machine. When I try to copy and paste tags within the SQLTags Browser nothing happens. I can drag and drop the tag to a folder but I can’t copy and paste it. Tested on my Windows machine and everything worked fine. ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/2 "2011-09-22T20:40:34Z")
Are there any errors in your designer console or diagnostics pane? ---
**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/3 "2011-09-22T20:56:34Z")
No errors are reported in either location. ---
**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/4 "2011-09-22T21:03:56Z")
Are you running the designer application under your openSUSE box? ---
**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/5 "2011-09-22T21:08:33Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/6 "2011-09-22T21:15:37Z")
Are you trying top copy and paste using the keyboard shortcuts? Depending on default configurations sometimes the shortcuts are not exactly what you’ll find in a Windows environment. Try Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V or Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert. ---
**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copying-and-pasting-tags-in-designer/3321/7 "2011-09-22T21:34:37Z")
Up until a few days ago I was using on older version of Ignition and I had no trouble with copying and pasting using the standard ctrl-c and ctrl-v. But just to be sure I tried copying with the Edit/Copy command followed by Edit/Paste. What is interesting is after using that copy command and then returning to Edit/Paste, that selection is grayed out as if the copy command was never executed.