# Easy way to check if tag use on Screen

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-way-to-check-if-tag-use-on-screen/91824>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-way-to-check-if-tag-use-on-screen/91824 "2024-06-13T13:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eugene49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eugene49](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eugene49)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-way-to-check-if-tag-use-on-screen/91824/1 "2024-06-13T13:46:50Z")

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Is there an easy way to check if a tag was use on any of the project's view.  
I wanted to be able to classify if tag's mode should be classified as direct or leased.

Some tags are not on screen but are there for logging to historian purpose.

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**Author:** ![Noah\_Casey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@Noah\_Casey](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Noah_Casey)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-way-to-check-if-tag-use-on-screen/91824/2 "2024-06-13T13:59:52Z")

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Using the find and replace feature you should be able to find the tag on any views:

> **[Find and Replace | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/designer/find-and-replace)**
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> The Find/Replace tool in the Edit menu of the Designer allows you to search your entire project for specific components, properties, scripts, Transaction Groups, and Tags. You can then use the replace feature to make mass changes to a project with...

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**Author:** ![Nick\_Wilson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nick_wilson/32/80663_2.png) [@Nick\_Wilson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nick_Wilson)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-way-to-check-if-tag-use-on-screen/91824/3 "2024-06-13T14:10:40Z")

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The Tag Reference Tracker in the "tag diagnostics" tool might be what you're looking for.

> [@Tag Reference Tracker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-reference-tracker/80999):
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> Intro At ICC, we announced that, in the 8.1.34 release, a new tool to identify what resource in Ignition is utilizing different tags would be released; a feature we call the Tag Reference Tracker. The code for this long awaited feature has been merged and will be available in the nightly build starting the morning of 10/26/2023. The [original request for this feature](https://inductiveautomation.canny.io/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/tags-cross-reference) was created a little over 9 years ago and there were multiple variations of what people were looking for this feature to be. We …