# queryStatus exclude certain tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/querystatus-exclude-certain-tags/22243>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/querystatus-exclude-certain-tags/22243 "2019-01-31T09:54:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![oisin.gribben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@oisin.gribben](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/oisin.gribben)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/querystatus-exclude-certain-tags/22243/1 "2019-01-31T09:54:21Z")

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Is the a way to exclude certain tags from an alarm query status.  
For example. Get all tags from folder “A2”. Exclude “A2/Test Tag”.

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/querystatus-exclude-certain-tags/22243/2 "2019-01-31T12:01:50Z")

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It doesn’t look like there’s a way to explicitly exclude one alarm. You’ll either have to create a list of source paths which include every tag except the one you want to exclude, or manually filter the list returned by `queryStatus` and throw away any data returned for the excluded tag.

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**Author:** ![oisin.gribben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@oisin.gribben](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/oisin.gribben)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/querystatus-exclude-certain-tags/22243/3 "2019-01-31T14:04:41Z")

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That’s what I’m doing currently. Just wondering if it works like an SQL query for exclussions.