# Help with inserting multiple tags into a table

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-inserting-multiple-tags-into-a-table/14545>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-inserting-multiple-tags-into-a-table/14545 "2017-06-16T14:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![brocha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@brocha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brocha)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-inserting-multiple-tags-into-a-table/14545/1 "2017-06-16T14:43:09Z")

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I am looking for way to insert multiple tag values into a table in the same row. Looking at the table setValue command, but there are 62 columns in this table. The other issue is I want this only to update the table when an certain event has occurred, button action performed as an example. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-inserting-multiple-tags-into-a-table/14545/2 "2017-06-16T15:06:24Z")

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If your question is whether there’s a more efficient way than calling setValue multiple times, then you could use the [system.dataset.updateRow](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.dataset.updateRow) function. You can make as many changes as you want to a given row at once. This, coupled with system.tag.readAll(), would be very efficient.

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**Author:** ![brocha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@brocha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brocha)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-inserting-multiple-tags-into-a-table/14545/3 "2017-06-16T15:09:23Z")

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Yes, I was looking for a more efficient way. I will try using the updateRow function. Thanks.