# Create Empty Tag Folder

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668 "2020-04-03T17:09:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668/1 "2020-04-03T17:09:58Z")

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Is there a scripting function I can use to create an empty tag folder?

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668/2 "2020-04-03T19:31:42Z")

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s`ystem.tag.addTag(parentPath` `=` `'', name` `=` `"Folder"` `, tagType` `=` `"Folder"` `)`

Right from the docs.  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.addTag](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.addTag)

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668/3 "2020-04-03T19:34:35Z")

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I am on Ignition 8 and that function is no longer in the documentation. They want us to use system.tag.configure, but now that I have the example you posted I should be able to try those parameters for the new function as there is no example for making a folder in the new documentation.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/create-empty-tag-folder/33668/4 "2020-04-08T03:38:13Z")

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This does work with the new system.tag.configure function.

```auto
tagPath = "[myTagProvider]someFolder"

tag = {
			"name": "myNewFolderName",
			"tagType": "Folder"
		}
		
		
system.tag.configure(tagPath, [tag], collisionPolicy="m")

```