# Drag and drop binding tag to component property

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108 "2023-04-05T19:08:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Davis\_Hatrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@Davis\_Hatrel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Davis_Hatrel)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/1 "2023-04-05T19:08:41Z")

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When you drag a tag onto a component's property, it automatically creates a tag binding on that property with the format "[tagProvider]folder/tagName". Is there any way to change the drag and drop binding format to just be "folder/tagName" and not include the tag provider?

It's kind of complicated why the format matters for our particular case, so I'm not going to include the reasoning in the post, but I can if someone would like to know.

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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:** [April 5, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/2 "2023-04-05T19:13:32Z")

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You asked this yesterday, over here:

[https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-you-exclude-tag-provider-when-you-use-drag-and-drop-to-bind-a-tag-to-a-property/72038](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-you-exclude-tag-provider-when-you-use-drag-and-drop-to-bind-a-tag-to-a-property/72038)

Double posting is against this [forum's rules](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/faq). Bumping a post (once) after a few days is the acceptable way to get more attention.

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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:** [April 5, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/3 "2023-04-05T19:13:49Z")

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/4 "2023-04-05T19:14:28Z")

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Phil I'm going to re-open this because I just deleted his other post at his request.

@Davis_Hatrel Phil is right though, maybe editing the old one would have been a better move.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/5 "2023-04-05T19:15:11Z")

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**Author:** ![Davis\_Hatrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@Davis\_Hatrel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Davis_Hatrel)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-binding-tag-to-component-property/72108/6 "2023-04-05T19:18:06Z")

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My apologies, I couldn't figure out how to delete it first, and I didn't think about just editing the original post.