# \[Idea maybe\] Allow us to specify a value to appear on an unexpanded UDT

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idea-maybe-allow-us-to-specify-a-value-to-appear-on-an-unexpanded-udt/52378>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 27, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idea-maybe-allow-us-to-specify-a-value-to-appear-on-an-unexpanded-udt/52378 "2021-10-27T04:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@michael2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael2)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idea-maybe-allow-us-to-specify-a-value-to-appear-on-an-unexpanded-udt/52378/1 "2021-10-27T04:56:52Z")

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Wondering if this would be useful for anyone else. I’m thinking somewhere in the UDT you could specify one of the tags to be a ‘key value’ which will be shown on the UDT in the tag browser.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idea-maybe-allow-us-to-specify-a-value-to-appear-on-an-unexpanded-udt/52378/2 "2021-10-27T05:26:11Z")

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I can see this as being somewhat useful. For device UDTs you could use the status description tag to see if the status of the device which would be useful

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**Author:** ![michael2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@michael2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael2)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/idea-maybe-allow-us-to-specify-a-value-to-appear-on-an-unexpanded-udt/52378/3 "2021-10-28T00:59:30Z")

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Please vote on this feature if you would like to see it implemented.