# Mass creation of Tags and Alarms in xml

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mass-creation-of-tags-and-alarms-in-xml/17310>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** ignition79, database\
**Created:** [March 10, 2018, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mass-creation-of-tags-and-alarms-in-xml/17310 "2018-03-10T06:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![brandon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@brandon1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brandon1)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mass-creation-of-tags-and-alarms-in-xml/17310/41 "2020-08-14T11:23:12Z")

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I find it very interesting that I’m running across this post right now since I am finishing up a custom window that will export tag defs in a predefined CSV and allow re-import of the CSV file or just an import of a brand new CSV file.

Now I realize that the dynamic nature of Ignition tags forces the use of XML and JSON but we just defined boundaries that all our tag definitions will follow which made a CSV file format possible.

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