# Export tags which are used on particular vision screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, vision\ **Created:** [June 15, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392 "2025-06-15T18:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ahad99.shalwani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ahad99.shalwani/32/76824_2.png) [@ahad99.shalwani](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ahad99.shalwani)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/1 "2025-06-15T18:08:49Z")
Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to export only the tags which are used in the particular vision screen. ---
**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/2 "2025-06-15T19:45:32Z")
You're wanting to identify tags used in the window's bindings and export them along with the window? ---
**Author:** ![ahad99.shalwani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ahad99.shalwani/32/76824_2.png) [@ahad99.shalwani](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ahad99.shalwani)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/3 "2025-06-15T19:46:10Z")
Yes. I wanted to know which tags are being used on the screen ---
**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/4 "2025-06-15T19:52:55Z")
Hmmm. Interesting question. I've always used the project browser to search component bindings. An icon will show up with a tag shape for tag bindings on the right side of the component name. That said, there is such a thing as a tag reference tracker that could help you to figure this out. Here is a link for more information: > [@Tag Reference Tracker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-reference-tracker/80999): > > 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 … ---
**Author:** ![ahad99.shalwani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ahad99.shalwani/32/76824_2.png) [@ahad99.shalwani](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ahad99.shalwani)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/5 "2025-06-15T20:01:57Z")
Tag reference tracker tool is like if we have a tag then then we can use this tool to check there it is used. But in my case I have a project in which there are hundreds of used and unused tags. So I need to clear up the tag browser and also check which tags are being used on a screen so that I can change its OPC path with new addresses. ---
**Author:** ![Leor\_Fishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Leor\_Fishman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Leor_Fishman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/6 "2025-06-15T21:34:45Z")
Does your project use templates in its vision windows/call out to project library scripts? if not, this is doable (and I've got some helpers that would probably make this work) but if so it's basically 'trace every callstack of a vision project' ---
**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/7 "2025-06-15T22:26:25Z")
If you set your Vision windows to save as XML instead of binary, you might be able to parse the XML to find all the tags references. It's not pretty XML but might do the job. ---
**Author:** ![Leor\_Fishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Leor\_Fishman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Leor_Fishman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-tags-which-are-used-on-particular-vision-screen/107392/8 "2025-06-16T02:52:04Z")
yeah, this was basically what I was referencing with my helpers (I have a bunch of XML parsing including but not limited to binding parsing tooling)