# Pass tag property to window property **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [October 3, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943 "2018-10-03T01:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ASF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@ASF](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ASF)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943/1 "2018-10-03T01:08:54Z")
I have a tag UDT definition called Motor. This UDT has a custom parameter “Description”. Each time I create an instance of this UDT, I enter the motor description so that I can use it in alarm messages and such. I also have a popup window, which is the motor control popup (e.g. status, start/stop, etc). This motor window has a custom property “TagPath”, where I specify the path to the tag so that I can call the same popup with multiple instances of the Motor tag. At the top of the popup I’d like to display the description of the motor. I can create a label, and I’ve got access to the tag path, but I can’t find a way to use that tag path to obtain the value of the specified tag’s “Description” property. I know I could pass a description string to the window when I open it, but again, I can pass a window property or a tag value, but I can’t find a way to pass a tag property. Any help is appreciated! [edit] while I play around, I’m sending a hard-coded string. It’s working, but when I’ve got the label’s text property bound to the Description property, I then can’t use HTML to wrap the text across multiple lines. So, once I have my motor description being passed in correctly, any ideas on how to force the label object to display it with HTML (or at least, across multiple lines)? ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@Andrew\_P](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andrew_P)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943/2 "2018-10-03T11:03:11Z")
Take a look at this post > [@Reading UDT Parameter Value?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-udt-parameter-value/11872): > > Hi All, Is there any ways to read a UDT Parameter value (for example I have a parameter called alarmDescription on UDT tank\_anomaly). I need to be able to read this value into a script. Doing a UDT Binding on a window does not show the parameter values. Or is there a way to read parameter values from the binding? Thank you! As for the html, just use an expression bound to the text property of the label like: `"" + {}` I don't bother with closing html tags anymore unless I need to limit the scope You can also use the html tag or to otherwise format text after a html tag for text alignment etc. in addition to the wrapping you get from the "conversion" to html, although it sounds like you might already be familiar with this. ---
**Author:** ![ASF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@ASF](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ASF)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943/3 "2018-10-04T03:51:57Z")
Thanks, got it working with that thread. I ended up not using the window properties at all, I just ran the following script on window startup: [code]TagPath = “%s.ExtendedProperties” % system.gui.getParentWindow(event).getComponentForPath(‘Root Container’).TagPath TagProperties = system.tag.read(TagPath) if TagProperties.value is not None: for Property in TagProperties.value: if Property.getProperty().name == ‘Description’: system.gui.getParentWindow(event).getComponentForPath(‘Root Container.Motor Description’).text = ‘’+Property.value break[/code] ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943/4 "2018-10-04T19:50:52Z")
A much simpler way is to just create an expression tag in the UDT. Name it something like MetaDescription and set its expression to ‘{Description}’ We do one for each of our UDT parameters, that makes them available to the UDT and windows. ---
**Author:** ![ASF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@ASF](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ASF)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-tag-property-to-window-property/19943/5 "2018-10-04T23:24:15Z")
That is nice and simple! I think I’ll do that, it’ll be much easier to see what’s going on for people in the future.