# Find UDT instance name from full tagPath

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-udt-instance-name-from-full-tagpath/40845>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 20, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-udt-instance-name-from-full-tagpath/40845 "2020-11-20T16:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-udt-instance-name-from-full-tagpath/40845/2 "2020-11-20T20:35:56Z")

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> [@Retrieving the UDT tag path from instance tag path](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieving-the-udt-tag-path-from-instance-tag-path/35810/2):
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> I’m assuming you are in Ignition v7.9.x, but you might be able to do something like this: tagPath = "[default]Path/To/Tag/Line 2/Filler.typeId" typeId = system.tag.read(tagPath).value print typeId I don’t have 7.9 on-hand to test that out, but I am curious as to the solution. I found that in Ignition 8.0, this seemed to work: tags = system.tag.getConfiguration(tagPath) for tag in tags: tagType = tag['tagType'] if str(tagType) == 'UdtInstance': typeId = str(tag['typeId']) print typeI…

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