# Initial Develoment - Stale Tags....disable?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-develoment-stale-tags-disable/9710>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 15, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-develoment-stale-tags-disable/9710 "2015-02-15T20:48:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paullys50](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paullys50/32/3324_2.png) [@Paullys50](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paullys50)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-develoment-stale-tags-disable/9710/1 "2015-02-15T20:48:03Z")

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During initial project development we might not have a PLC to connect to right away but we want to proceed with initial development of our Ignition project. Is there a way to disable tags so that don’t show as stale in the designer?

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-develoment-stale-tags-disable/9710/2 "2015-02-16T01:08:16Z")

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For the designer you can go to View -\> Disable Overlays in the designer.

For the client:  
You could call this in a client startup script to disable the overlay system:

```auto
system.tag.setOverlaysEnabled(False)
```

If this doesn’t help then can you explain further what is meant by disable tags?  
Best,