Move tag by script

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1

Hi all
is there a way to move a tag by using script? I have to move a tag from a folder called “temp” to the main folder
Thank you

2

There’s no way to move a tag - you can only remove it and re-create it in the new location.

3

ok. So the solution I am using now is the only one that is possible. Thank you for the reply

4

You can get this functionality using system.tag.browseConfiguration and system.tag.configure.

Here is a very hard coded example. It might be easier to convert the TagConfigSet to JSON and deal with it that way, but this works for your example.

t = system.tag.browseConfiguration("temp",True)
print t[0].properties

for p in t[0].properties:
	if p.name == "path":
		break
	else:
		p = None

op = t[0].fullPath
if p is not None:
	t[0].set(p,"")
	
print t.toJSON()
system.tag.configure(path = "",tags=t,collisionMode = "Abort")
system.tag.removeTag(op)
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5

Thank you Kyle but that script is not working as expected as the tag I have to move is an UDT instance. So if I run this script it will take just the first tag inside the instance and move it to the main folder

6

It will work, just move the udt itself, by changing its path.