# Run time bindability

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 20, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056 "2010-07-20T19:45:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056/1 "2010-07-20T19:45:57Z")

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Is there a way to find out, at run time, what a property is bound to? Can it be changed?

I could use a dynamic property and check the value of it, but I’d be more interested in finding out which dynamic property a property is bound to. If I can.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056/2 "2010-07-20T23:59:27Z")

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No, theres not. Changing the binding at runtime is pretty much out of the question - that would be a huge effort on our part.

Querying the binding system wouldbe possible, but would open up a can of worms. Bindings can be complex things. How should they be “described”? i.e. what would a theoretical function call like system.binding.queryBindingType(component, property) even return?

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056/3 "2010-07-21T17:12:53Z")

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Ok, don’t worry about it. It was just my mind throwing around wild (_._) ideas

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**Author:** ![tamerplc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tamerplc](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tamerplc)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056/4 "2020-09-19T20:42:57Z")

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Hi Carl,  
Is there any plan for "System.binding.queryBindingType(component, property) ??

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/run-time-bindability/2056/5 "2020-09-20T00:25:35Z")

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If you’re in perspective, you could get this in a roundabout way by reading the view.json for the view itself. It’s located in the project folder and pretty straightforward to get