# Retrieving Failover Source programatically

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieving-failover-source-programatically/20909>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79, scripting\
**Created:** [November 16, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieving-failover-source-programatically/20909 "2018-11-16T19:13:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cesrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@cesrom](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cesrom)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieving-failover-source-programatically/20909/1 "2018-11-16T19:13:06Z")

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Retrieving the User Source for a project seems to be easily accomplished by reading a tag

```auto
system.tag.read('[System]Client/System/UserSource').value

```

But I have not found a way to read the Failover Source via scripting.

Is there a way I have not found yet, or should I submit this as a feature request?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieving-failover-source-programatically/20909/2 "2018-11-16T19:19:09Z")

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No, it doesn’t look like there’s a way to extract this info (technically, it could be chain of failovers) - but it does sound like a reasonable feature request.