# Problem button deactivated

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959 "2021-03-01T18:42:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aproust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@aproust](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aproust)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959/1 "2021-03-01T18:42:34Z")

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Hello

I’m working with Ignition 8.1, I have a controller compactlogix 5380.  
The connection is good I can send and receive commands from the designer directly on my laptop, but my problem, I can’t do anything on the operator screen.  
On the operator screen, all of the buttons is like on an off mode I can’t click on them.  
Please someone can help me ?

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959/2 "2021-03-01T18:44:32Z")

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What kind of button did you use?  
How did you set up the bindings on the button?

Still need a little more information before we can properly help.

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**Author:** ![aproust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@aproust](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aproust)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959/3 "2021-03-01T19:07:36Z")

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I used a standard button  
I send my command with a script with “action performed” : tagBasePath = event.source.parent.tagBasePath  
system.tag.write(tagBasePath + “/cmd/autoModeRequest”,True)

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-button-deactivated/43959/4 "2021-03-01T19:19:47Z")

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Is all you are doing setting a tag value to true?

Any reason you are not using the Set Tag Value option?

You should move from using `system.tag.write()` to `system.tag.writeBlocking()`

However, none of that would matter if you can’t **click** the button. That would indicate something like, the enabled property is false. Do you have a binding configured for any of the button properties?

Is your issue that you can’t **click** the button or that when you click the button you don’t get the expected results?