# ManagedTagProvider Timestamp updates?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** ignition83\
**Created:** [January 1, 2026, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043 "2026-01-01T09:34:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/1 "2026-01-01T09:34:06Z")

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I have a managed tag provider set up, and I periodically update the tag values, not always changing them. Is the timestamp shown in Ignition based on last change or last update? It seems to not update the timestamp every time I refresh the data.

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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:** [January 1, 2026, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/2 "2026-01-01T14:04:34Z")

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Not sure if it’s the same for tags from a MTP, but for OPC tags you would need to disable deadband on the tag.

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/3 "2026-01-02T23:34:29Z")

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So how would that work? A managed tag provider uses `updateValue(path,value,qualityCode,timestamp)` as it's tag update and creation mechanism. This doesn't seem to have an ability to set the tag settings on creation and not constantly update the config. There is a `configureTag()` function, but then you would need to self evaluate tag creation.

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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:** [January 2, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/4 "2026-01-02T23:36:24Z")

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Configure it in the Designer as a user.

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/5 "2026-01-03T00:41:29Z")

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This does work. I would love to be able to do it from Java.

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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:** [January 5, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/managedtagprovider-timestamp-updates/113043/6 "2026-01-05T13:19:54Z")

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Tried something like this?

```java
BoundPropertySet config = new BasicBoundPropertySet();
config.set(WellKnownTagProps.DeadbandMode, DeadbandMode.Off);
managedTagProvider.configureTag("MyTag", config);

```

> [@David\_Stone](#):
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> This doesn't seem to have an ability to set the tag settings on creation and not constantly update the config. There is a `configureTag()` function, but then you would need to self evaluate tag creation.

Not familiar with managed tag providers... what does this mean?

edit: also might try `BoundPropertySetDiff` instead of `BasicBoundPropertySet` if you find the existing config gets replaced.