# Parameter passing to popup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/parameter-passing-to-popup/77785>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [August 13, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/parameter-passing-to-popup/77785 "2023-08-13T08:40:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![scott2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@scott2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/scott2)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/parameter-passing-to-popup/77785/2 "2023-08-13T09:31:40Z")

</div>

resolved.  
I referred to this thread & changed the binding from UDT to expression based & seems to function the same without the delay

> [@Template using UDT param: Can you access UDT tag metadata?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-using-udt-param-can-you-access-udt-tag-metadata/10179/8):
>
> We’ve just been bitten by this too. A touchscreen we use has a quite slow CPU, opening a motor popup took 1s to show the popup window, and another 7-8 seconds to visualise the tag data. During that time, the CPU was constantly running at 100%. I would have thought that opening a popup would be influenced mostly by network speed (getting the data from the server) or graphical power (rendering the screen itself), but it turns out to be CPU intensive. Changing the popup to accept a tagpath parame…

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/parameter-passing-to-popup/77785)._
