# Generate a list of Overridden Properties from a Udt Instance

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/generate-a-list-of-overridden-properties-from-a-udt-instance/59185>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/generate-a-list-of-overridden-properties-from-a-udt-instance/59185 "2022-05-03T22:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jared\_McNamee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jared\_McNamee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jared_McNamee)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/generate-a-list-of-overridden-properties-from-a-udt-instance/59185/1 "2022-05-03T22:47:26Z")

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Hi, I’m wondering if there is a cleaner way to get a list of properties on a UDT instance that have been overridden short of having to get the configuration of the instance and get the configuration of UDT and compare each value. With the nature of the project I’m working on there are a lot of UDT’s that have nested Udt’s within them making a direct comparison non-trivial. For reference I’m using ignition 8.1.16.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/generate-a-list-of-overridden-properties-from-a-udt-instance/59185/2 "2022-05-04T09:10:44Z")

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Unfortunately I think you’re stuck using getConfiguration and parsing the results. It would be nice it there was an inbuilt report for summarising tag info like that. Udt type usage would be another good one