# Referencing a tag property in another property within the same tag

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 30, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454 "2021-08-30T20:35:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mdia/32/87599_2.png) [@mdia](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mdia)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454/1 "2021-08-30T20:35:04Z")

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I wanna reference the property “Label” in the the property PB\_OPCtag. I tried tag({PathToTag}+’.Label’) but that didn’t work… Can this be accomplished?

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454/2 "2021-08-30T21:07:54Z")

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No can do sorry. The only thing you can do is to write the value via a script

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**Author:** ![leonardo.godoi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/leonardo.godoi/32/27178_2.png) [@leonardo.godoi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/leonardo.godoi)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454/3 "2021-08-30T21:18:00Z")

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IF you don’t have a restriction on having to use this specific tag, you can probably do a similar thing by using an UDT with “PB\_OPCTag” beng a string tag with it’s value source deriving from an expression.  
Otherwise, you’ll have to do as @nminchin said.

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/referencing-a-tag-property-in-another-property-within-the-same-tag/50454/4 "2021-08-31T08:43:17Z")

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arent there also parameters in udts? i suppose you could ref those multiple times.