# Import and export tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-and-export-tags/88713>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-and-export-tags/88713 "2024-04-11T20:28:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![david\_rafael\_ulloque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@david\_rafael\_ulloque](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/david_rafael_ulloque)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-and-export-tags/88713/1 "2024-04-11T20:28:22Z")

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Hello everyone, I'm exporting a bunch of tags in order to make some modifications to each tag. After modifying the exported file, I import it back into my project. Everything in the tag browser seems good; all the modified tags also change in the tag browser. However, the problem is that all the tags spread over all screens in the application did not change. So my question is, is there a way to also change the tag names in all screens according to the new tags imported?

I'm importing in direct mode, collision Policy Overwrite

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**Author:** ![djs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@djs](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/djs)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-and-export-tags/88713/2 "2024-04-12T13:13:27Z")

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Your best bet is to probably just make a spreadsheet with old vs new tagPath; then go through the list and use [Find/Replace](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/designer/find-and-replace) on each. (I would personally only use find/replace with the **full tag paths** to make sure you don't accidentally overwrite anything you weren't intending to.)