# Spreadsheet Import Tool **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Exchange\ **Tags:** ignition81, scripting\ **Created:** [July 20, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/spreadsheet-import-tool/93500 "2024-07-20T13:33:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/spreadsheet-import-tool/93500/6 "2024-08-07T11:33:39Z")
I answered your question over here: > [@Do's and Don'ts when developing First Project with Ignition?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dos-and-donts-when-developing-first-project-with-ignition/93592/30): > > Many Ignition applications/deployments use many device connections with corresponding UDT instances, or with large collections of UDT instances, or with a mix of UDTs and arbitrary tags and tag folders. It is common for there to be repeating patterns for most of this, but with enough odd elements for Ignition's instance creation wizard to be unsuited. (Well, the wizard is awfully simplistic--I never use it.) With this tool, you can create structures in an Excel workbook that describes all of … Reposting questions in more than one place is against [this forum's rules](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/faq). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/spreadsheet-import-tool/93500)._