# Get window title from other window

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 7, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-window-title-from-other-window/32913 "2020-03-07T17:48:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-window-title-from-other-window/32913/1 "2020-03-07T17:48:26Z")

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Hello  
I have a table that contains all the windows of my project. Is there any way to get more information from those windows?. for example the title.  
I tried system.gui.getWindow (‘window’) but it doesn’t work  
I’m working in vision module.  
thanks

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-window-title-from-other-window/32913/2 "2020-03-07T18:21:55Z")

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Windows are stored in serialized form. You must open them to get an object with the properties and methods and root container contents you are looking for.

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**Author:** ![lachguerabdallah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lachguerabdallah/32/25558_2.png) [@lachguerabdallah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lachguerabdallah)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-window-title-from-other-window/32913/3 "2020-03-07T18:47:43Z")

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thanks for your reply.  
My idea is to store the window titles in a database automatically. Then the user searches for the window with a text field.  
Any idea how I can do it?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-window-title-from-other-window/32913/4 "2020-03-07T19:38:03Z")

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You can use system.gui.getWindowNames() in a script to find all windows, open them, collect the information you want, then close them. Presumably in the designer. I would construct a dataset from this and store it in a client tag. All clients would then have a convenient list to work from.