# Error During Tag Export

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-during-tag-export/99022>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 22, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-during-tag-export/99022 "2024-11-22T22:02:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kurt\_Isaac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kurt\_Isaac](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kurt_Isaac)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-during-tag-export/99022/1 "2024-11-22T22:02:38Z")

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Hi there, when trying to import tags into ignition I am getting the following error from Ignition!

Any ideas?

 ![error ignition](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/f/af73beb44fde9ba2294a2a5161c01abeba44a9ed.png)  
[jeremy was here 0-70 .json](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/zWQ8RV1HdzFNSfY35GVi6HA3nEu.json) (27.0 KB)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-during-tag-export/99022/2 "2024-11-22T22:20:37Z")

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Look at the JSON file you have in a text editor. It's completely broken.  
Line 194 that it's complaining about is the literal text `#VALUE!` with no JSON syntax surrounding it, but even removing that, there's weird gaps of empty lines, and the whole file is not well-formed JSON otherwise.

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-during-tag-export/99022/3 "2024-11-24T02:31:09Z")

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After opening the file in Kate and running the JSON formatter on it. I was able the import the results. It's up to you to see if everything is there or not.

YMMV.

[formattedTags.json](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/euA133ncWLoYkC7fMb5Vh3L5kXK.json) (47.3 KB)