# Getting the context in which a function is running?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-the-context-in-which-a-function-is-running/33977 "2020-04-16T12:28:40Z")\
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However you check for scope, consider doing it at the top level of an inherited script module, setting booleans like `isDesigner` and `isGateway`. Then just check the booleans everywhere else.

Something like this:

```auto
try:
    isDesigner = bool(system.util.getSystemFlags() & system.util.DESIGNER_FLAG)
    isGateway = False
except AttributeError:
    isDesigner = False
    isGateway = True

```

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