# How to add block items to transaction group quicker

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434 "2020-07-07T14:03:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbai1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mbai1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mbai1)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434/1 "2020-07-07T14:03:56Z")

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hello, I am trying to add all our motor status opc tags to block items in transaction group. There are over 500 of them. We will use them for report generation/ I am wondering instead of manually found them and add them one by one, is there any quicker way to do it? 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:** [July 7, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434/2 "2020-07-07T22:34:55Z")

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You can export the transaction group to XML and then edit with an external tool. I find that to be much more efficient.

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**Author:** ![mbai1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mbai1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mbai1)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434/3 "2020-07-08T13:44:22Z")

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thank you i will try that!

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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434/4 "2020-07-08T15:42:39Z")

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If your tags are in folders, you can also drag the folder into the transaction group.

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**Author:** ![mbai1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mbai1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mbai1)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-block-items-to-transaction-group-quicker/36434/5 "2020-07-08T15:51:54Z")

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they are in folder, just we only want partial of each folder, and kinda need to do manually