# Indirect Tag strange behavior on remote designer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [August 28, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/indirect-tag-strange-behavior-on-remote-designer/116937 "2026-08-28T17:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![torry.neuhoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@torry.neuhoff](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/torry.neuhoff)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/indirect-tag-strange-behavior-on-remote-designer/116937/1 "2026-08-28T17:34:52Z")
I inherited a project from a colleague and am seeing some strange behavior when I try and use Indirect Tags. If I open the project in a Designer running on the same computer as the Gateway Indirect Tags work normally. However, if I open the my PC or any other PC, Indirect Tags have the following strange behavior: If I open the Property Bindings and go to Indirect Tag tab, the field for the Indirect Tag Path is missing: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/1/01340912ea1afe8fdace0cffd573d989012e287b.png) I can click the little tag icon and select a tag, after which the Path field shows up but then it will not let me edit the Property Path: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/6/969a73c27bd9b86e13fa30b20496454ea6cabfdf.png) If I go to something that already had an indirect tag binding, the references are unpopulated: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/a/6a4d8cc023400c458c7d97dba2db8ee7bfe12278.png) All this works normally on the computer running the gateway. Any ideas? I have a dozen other project I've run from the designer on my PC and don't have this problem on any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Bushmatic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bushmatic/32/87014_2.png) [@Bushmatic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bushmatic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/indirect-tag-strange-behavior-on-remote-designer/116937/2 "2026-08-30T23:10:04Z")
Never seen that before. Are all the designers on the same version? Since it's just this one project, I would try making a copy of the project or exporting/importing into a new project to see if the problem persists. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/indirect-tag-strange-behavior-on-remote-designer/116937/3 "2026-08-31T03:44:30Z")
I would try deleting the designer cache for that gateway on your machine under `c:/users/../.ignition/cache/gw folder`, on Windows. Then relaunch the designer