# SimpleTagProviderExample edits to add tags in the designer?

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**Category:** Module Development\
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084 "2019-05-16T20:01:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084/1 "2019-05-16T20:01:39Z")

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I’ve installed the SimpleTagProviderExample module for Ignition 7.9 and was wondering if there’s a way to manually add tags in the designer after the module’s installed. Leaving the module as it is returns the message “This tag provider does not allow manually adding tags.” If so, would this still be handled in the Gateway’s hook?

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**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084/2 "2019-05-20T12:52:20Z")

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Would this even be possible in a simple tag provider, or should I be looking into methods using the “com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.sqltags.providers” instead of “com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.sqltags.simple”?

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**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084/3 "2019-05-21T20:11:07Z")

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Sorry for the frequent posts, but since the simple tag provider is more limited, what is a good place in the API to start writing a realtime tag provider?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084/4 "2019-05-21T20:50:22Z")

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Sorry, we have no documentation or examples for this, and I doubt that will change any time soon.

There’s javadocs from 7.9 available [here](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition79/790-beta1/index.html) and for 8.0 [here](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition80/8.0.1/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/tags/model/TagProvider.html)

The interface and everything else about the system changed significantly for 8.0.

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**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simpletagproviderexample-edits-to-add-tags-in-the-designer/25084/5 "2019-05-21T20:56:32Z")

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Alright. Thanks for the help!