# Search tags online

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576 "2021-04-14T08:39:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bert.drijkoningen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bert.drijkoningen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bert.drijkoningen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/1 "2021-04-14T08:39:41Z")

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Hi, I’m making my first demo application to check and test the different possibilities of Ignition. The biggest thing I’m missing at the moment is an online tag search in the viewer. Is this possible? Or is there a workaround I can use to do this?  
Thanks!

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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:** [April 14, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/2 "2021-04-14T10:51:36Z")

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Not sure what you mean by the viewer? If you mean the designer, there’s a find replace tool under edit. If you want to browse plc tags there’s the OPC browser panel, and igntion tags are under the tag browser panel

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**Author:** ![bert.drijkoningen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bert.drijkoningen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bert.drijkoningen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/3 "2021-04-14T11:01:06Z")

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Hi,  
Thank you.  
I mean in the vision client. Is there a way for the operator for example to directly search a tag?

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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:** [April 14, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/4 "2021-04-14T12:06:33Z")

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~~It’s possible, but not out of the box, you’ll need to write code yourself to cache a list of all tags and then display it in a list, tree view or dropdown list~~ nevermind me

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/5 "2021-04-14T12:13:31Z")

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For Vision you can use Tag Browse Tree,  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Vision+-+Tag+Browse+Tree](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Vision+-+Tag+Browse+Tree)

Since you are new, you should check out all of the videos,  
[https://inductiveuniversity.com/courses/whats-new-in-ignition-81/8.1](https://inductiveuniversity.com/courses/whats-new-in-ignition-81/8.1)

And, why not use the demo already created??  
[https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads/extra-material](https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads/extra-material)

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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:** [April 14, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/search-tags-online/45576/6 "2021-04-14T12:15:24Z")

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Oh hey, I thought there was only a historical tag browser component, my bad