# Is there a way to change Scan Class for many tags at once?

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**Created:** [March 23, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825 "2015-03-23T17:30:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bob/32/16899_2.png) [@Bob](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bob)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/1 "2015-03-23T17:30:33Z")

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Is there a way to change the Scan Class for many tags at once?

I have a a few different Tag folders that currently use the same Scan Class. I want to change some of the tag folders, and recursively all of the tags below the selected folder, to a new Scan Class. Rather than change the Scan Class reference individually for each tag, it would be nice if there was a way to apply the Scan Class change to all tags in the selected folder and subfolders with one assignment. Is this possible?

Thank you,  
Bob

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/2 "2015-03-23T17:36:36Z")

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Sure, use search and replace to find all the tags under a given folder, select them all, then edit and change scan class.

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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:** [March 23, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/3 "2015-03-23T17:37:10Z")

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You can select multiple tags in the Tag Browser in the designer. Then right-click and select Edit Tags. Then change the scan class for all the selected tags.

Best,

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**Author:** ![Bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bob/32/16899_2.png) [@Bob](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bob)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/4 "2015-03-23T18:12:07Z")

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Thank you, both suggestions are better than changing all tags individually.

But since I have many tags I would like changed, and the tag names are varied, it would still be nice to have some way to do this for an entire folder and/or folder hierarchy. I expect at some point we will create the SQL tags address space via an XML file import.

Is there is a way to designate a different Scan Class as the default when dragging a folder (and subfolders) of tags from the OPC Browser to the Tag Browser without changing the settings of the previous default scan class?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/5 "2015-03-23T18:24:12Z")

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Okay, I meant to say use the tag search feature of the tag browser (binocular icon). You can select all the tags within a folder.

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**Author:** ![Bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bob/32/16899_2.png) [@Bob](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bob)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-scan-class-for-many-tags-at-once/9825/6 "2015-03-23T18:33:51Z")

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Kevin,

Ah, I should have figured that out from your original post. Thank you for the clarification, that will work great!

Bob