# runScript in tag expression causes error

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [October 8, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/runscript-in-tag-expression-causes-error/28910 "2019-10-08T11:58:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/runscript-in-tag-expression-causes-error/28910/5 "2019-10-08T12:14:26Z")

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Yep... this new version is bending my mind a little bit.

OK... I found it in another forum post that my google-fu couldn't find.

> [@runScript in expression tag](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/runscript-in-expression-tag/10378/17):
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> I see that you are in Ignition 8 instead of the original posts which are in 7.9. There is no longer the “Global” project that you are familiar with in 7.9. Instead, tags have access to scripts that are in the Gateway Scripting Project. This is configured on the gateway web page Config \> Gateway Settings \> Gateway Scripting Project. At this point, the script you want to access in the tag HAS to be on that project. Tags cannot run scripts from another project that inherits that project. From your…

I have a global project for all the projects called ESPGlobal and I just changed from global to ESPGlobal. Once I did that bingo things are back and working.

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