# Disabling child tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 14, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726 "2014-07-14T19:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![IronYeti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ironyeti/32/4124_2.png) [@IronYeti](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/IronYeti)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726/1 "2014-07-14T19:38:27Z")

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Question: does disabling a parent tag also disable all of its child tags?

I have a UDT that is made up of other UDTs, each of which also contain UDTs. I have many instances of the main UDT configured, but I want to disable some. In the SQLTags Browser when I disable an instance its icon grays out. But the child tags still look enabled. Is this, in fact, true? I really don’t want to click through to hundreds of tags. I can do it through script I suppose, but won’t need to if I can simply disable the parents.

I set up a sample project and some UDTs in this screenshot (attached).

So in my example, are ‘Level 2 tag A’, etc. and the ‘Level 3 instance 1’ tags disabled?

The reason for this is these tags do not exist in the PLC so I’d rather save the traffic and log entries associated with them.

I see on another thread ([https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31662#p31662](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31662#p31662)) that implies child tags are in fact disabled, but I cannot verify is this is really the case (from the SQLTags Browser).  
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**Author:** ![james.hunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@james.hunt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/james.hunt)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726/2 "2014-07-16T21:51:08Z")

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I was able to test this on our side and found that this is an issue. I have opened a bug ticket for this issue and it will be fixed in a coming update.

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**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726/3 "2014-09-28T05:35:18Z")

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This is still an issue in 7.7.1, any news when this will be fixed?

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**Author:** ![zackscriven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zackscriven/32/7213_2.png) [@zackscriven](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zackscriven)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726/4 "2014-10-09T13:50:41Z")

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Second that.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-child-tags/8726/5 "2014-10-21T17:21:31Z")

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Hi all,

This will be fixed for 7.7.2. I believe it’s fixed for rc1, but not 100% sure. If not, I know it has, in fact, been fixed for rc2.

Regards,