# EAM: Send tags from an agent to another agent

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049 "2022-11-03T09:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![louagejasper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/louagejasper/32/86311_2.png) [@louagejasper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/louagejasper)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049/1 "2022-11-03T09:39:49Z")

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Hi,

We are setting up EAM with multiple sites and environments (dev, test, prod).  
With EAM tasks we are able to send projects from agent A to agent B, but it seems we are only able to send tags from the **controller to an agent** and not from an **agent to another agent**.

Could someone shine a light on this? Is it correct that we cannot do this? If so, how would you send tags from an agent to an other agent?

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**Author:** ![plo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/plo/32/33875_2.png) [@plo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/plo)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049/2 "2022-11-10T23:43:48Z")

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Hello louagejasper,

Correct, EAM Tasks are from Controller to Agent actions. List of EAM agent task  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Agent+Tasks](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Agent+Tasks)

As an alternative, you can import the tags to the Controller first, then send the tags to the Agents.  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Agent+Task+-+Send+Tags](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Agent+Task+-+Send+Tags)

Or import the tags through to the other Agent's Designer directly, if that's not too hard.

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**Author:** ![louagejasper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/louagejasper/32/86311_2.png) [@louagejasper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/louagejasper)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049/3 "2022-11-11T13:21:22Z")

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Thanks for you reply plo. Both options seem a bit cumbersome to me. Why can we not just send tags from one agent to another, just like we can with projects?

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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_Rodgers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/77aa72/32.png) [@Nicholas\_Rodgers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nicholas_Rodgers)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-send-tags-from-an-agent-to-another-agent/66049/4 "2023-12-06T00:45:19Z")

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I am seconding this as a feature request. Would be very beneficial to have the ability to send from agent to agent via the EAM to match the functionality of the send project task