# Perspective - Scripting - Get default provider for active project **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80, perspective\ **Created:** [May 20, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951 "2021-05-20T18:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luc.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/1 "2021-05-20T18:02:21Z")
I’m on 8.1.5 Is there a way to get the default provider name for the active project ? ---
**Author:** ![jespinmartin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jespinmartin1/32/57175_2.png) [@jespinmartin1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jespinmartin1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/2 "2021-05-20T18:05:55Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/6/96b065e000d8b5c4ffefb82187f723abf5bdb283.png) ---
**Author:** ![luc.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/3 "2021-05-20T18:21:39Z")
Unable to read that tag in perspective ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/0/304efb186fe9d3125a9d893840f688689cfb17b4.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/a/cacc5ee878a3aae446303ac8097978ebb64c7a8a.png) ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/4 "2021-05-20T18:59:23Z")
Added the perspective tag to the post title. Since you hadn’t specified, @jespinmartin1 pointed you to a client tag, which doesn’t exist in perspective. 😉 I’ll poke around a bit, unless someone already knows and chimes in before I get back. ---
**Author:** ![Cory.grube](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cory.grube/32/20476_2.png) [@Cory.grube](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cory.grube)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/5 "2021-05-20T19:05:22Z")
Running this in the client scope should get you your default provider: `system.tag.getConfiguration('', False)[0]['path']` ---
**Author:** ![luc.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/6 "2021-05-20T19:40:45Z")
Thanks, do what I want ---
**Author:** ![luc.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/7 "2021-05-20T19:44:51Z")
> [@Cory.grube](#): > > system.tag.getConfiguration('', False)[0]['path'] Any tricks to get the list of all provider ? ---
**Author:** ![jespinmartin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jespinmartin1/32/57175_2.png) [@jespinmartin1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jespinmartin1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/8 "2021-05-20T19:54:24Z")
ohh, since you asked for a default provider of project I assumed the non complicate answer. There is no such a good way to get the provider of a project in a session, we could write some script to .getDefaultProvider() at gateway scope but well need to specify the project name somewhere, which results complicate if you just use a static global prop at your session. I can advice you to create a session custom property with the name of the provider and make all your bindings using this. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/5/c5dbdf7b434593debe38328a1ac5677bbe582672.png) ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/9 "2021-05-20T20:47:38Z")
> [@luc.martin](#): > > Any tricks to get the list of all provider ? ` [provider['name'] for provider in system.tag.browse('')]` ---
**Author:** ![luc.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-scripting-get-default-provider-for-active-project/46951/10 "2021-05-20T21:35:23Z")
Tanks