# Hi guys, so I encountered this error "Scripting\[system\_util\_tag\]", can you help how to find and debug this error

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, scripting\
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888 "2021-10-13T08:58:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@marcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marcg)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/1 "2021-10-13T08:58:01Z")

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Hi guys, so I encountered this error “Scripting[system\_util\_tag]”, can you help how to find and debug this error?  
because i have no idea where to look at because of lack of info in the error.

Advanced Thanks!

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/2 "2021-10-13T09:17:07Z")

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you are somewhere using in your code a function “send”() and give it a property while it doesnt need one.

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**Author:** ![marcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@marcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marcg)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/3 "2021-10-13T09:20:23Z")

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Yes, i think so too, but I cant find where did i put that script 🙃

btw thanks for the comment sir!

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/4 "2021-10-13T09:21:58Z")

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im guessing its in an expression runScript()  
you can use find to search through scripts and expresssions

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**Author:** ![marcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@marcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marcg)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/5 "2021-10-13T09:28:56Z")

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okay, ill try that, thanks sir.

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**Author:** ![marcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@marcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marcg)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/6 "2021-10-13T09:47:11Z")

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it worked, i found the existing script, Thanks to you sir.

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hi-guys-so-i-encountered-this-error-scripting-system-util-tag-can-you-help-how-to-find-and-debug-this-error/51888/7 "2021-10-13T09:48:35Z")

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Nice 🙂  
usualy the logs show where it happend, but sometimes you just have to use the good old ctrl+f xd