# Newbie question Writing to a Memory Tag

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 5, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644 "2017-02-05T17:05:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mwaynesmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mwaynesmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mwaynesmith)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644/1 "2017-02-05T17:05:40Z")

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Created integer memory tag “Test Tag”

Attempting to write to a memory tag in Designer ‘Script Console’

Executed this: system.write.tag(“Test Tag”,1)

This returned:  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “”, line 1, in   
AttributeError: ‘com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.gui.tool’ object has no attribute ‘write’

and of course tag did not get written to  
What am I missing?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644/2 "2017-02-05T17:36:06Z")

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Try:

```auto
system.tag.write("Test Tag",1)
```

Here you have all Ignition help:  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.write](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.write)

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**Author:** ![mwaynesmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mwaynesmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mwaynesmith)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644/3 "2017-02-05T19:20:31Z")

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Thanks for the help, closed the topic before I could thank you. Told you I was a newbie.

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newbie-question-writing-to-a-memory-tag/12644/4 "2017-02-05T19:22:01Z")

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No problem… We all was once there… ![:thumb_left:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/e26afb081ddde6df016df6ee49159cf56aaca688.gif ":thumb\_left:")