# Project default tag provider not updating in Designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-default-tag-provider-not-updating-in-designer/81090>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective, designer\
**Created:** [October 27, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-default-tag-provider-not-updating-in-designer/81090 "2023-10-27T11:34:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DavidO](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/davido/32/53092_2.png) [@DavidO](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DavidO)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-default-tag-provider-not-updating-in-designer/81090/1 "2023-10-27T11:34:23Z")

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Still in the learning phase, so bear with me 😉

I'm testing changing the project default tag provider.  
The motive is to be able to run against different providers when debugging different release versions.  
I have tested with one provider with a tag, and a second ("clone)" provider with different name but containing the same tag.  
I reference this tag without the provider base-path so,  
'myProjectDefaultProvider' (not '[default]myProjectDefaultProvider').  
In the View onStartup script i get the provider name and tag value and write them as text to label components on the View.

When changing the project default tag provider in the Project-menu + saving, this updates fine in the browser. It does not update in the Designer.  
Running preview mode (or toggling) does not help.  
Only way I find is to go into the onStart script itself and exit with OK (save), then texts update.

I realize this is a system event which is "Fired on a **view** when the view is loaded into the browser window."

But is there any way to enforce this on the Designer?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-default-tag-provider-not-updating-in-designer/81090/2 "2023-10-27T11:36:06Z")

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Re-open the project in the designer. This applies to most project settings.

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**Author:** ![DavidO](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/davido/32/53092_2.png) [@DavidO](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DavidO)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-default-tag-provider-not-updating-in-designer/81090/3 "2023-10-27T11:57:33Z")

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This did the trick, thanks Phil!  
The save popup in the designer was a bit confusing:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/8/d83f53bd99c8be57a413a201d8c86b46b731418f.png)  
Got the feeling this would apply to designer as well.