# Is there any way to update tags without importing from designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504 "2022-02-24T11:13:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![gkchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@gkchan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gkchan)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/1 "2022-02-24T11:13:39Z")

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Is there any way to update tags without importing the tags from designer?  
Where do we find the tags file in JSON format?

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/2 "2022-02-24T11:19:57Z")

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Maybe [system.tag.configure - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.tag.configure)

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**Author:** ![gkchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@gkchan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gkchan)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/3 "2022-02-24T12:53:57Z")

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Is there any way to import tags using command line or by replacing file in ignition without using designer?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/4 "2022-02-24T13:51:46Z")

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`system.tag.configure` can be called from gateway scope. If combined with the webdev module, you could POST some json to be parsed and converted into a sequence of calls to `system.tag.configure`. Not trivial, but not rocket science, either.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/5 "2022-02-24T15:33:27Z")

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There’s no (safe) way to directly apply tags to an offline Ignition system, though, if you’re asking from the perspective of system initialization/configuration from something like Ansible, Docker, etc.

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**Author:** ![gkchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@gkchan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gkchan)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-update-tags-without-importing-from-designer/56504/6 "2022-02-25T02:11:58Z")

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Yes, i am trying to do see how i can update my tags using CI/CD pipelines for dev ops. I am using Microsoft Azure TFS for DevOps. Any advice on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.