# system.opcua.addConnection - Description not showing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [October 16, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510 "2026-10-16T05:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@alex3](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex3)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510/1 "2026-10-16T05:46:37Z")

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I've been investigating scripting the addition of new OPC servers.

I'm able to successfully call system.opcua.addConnection() to create the connection, however when I check OPC Connections page in the gateway, the Description field is always blank, no matter what I pass in as the second argument (description) to the method.

Is this a bug? I have only tested in 8.3.3 so far.

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**Author:** ![alberto.vazquez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@alberto.vazquez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alberto.vazquez)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510/2 "2026-10-16T10:31:33Z")

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After declaring the OPC connection, do you successfully get any information from the OPC server ? Or the connection is dead(somewhere an error that avoids the gateway to take it into account)

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**Author:** ![alex3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@alex3](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex3)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510/3 "2026-10-16T12:27:56Z")

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No the connection is created just fine, and starts functioning straight away. Its just the description that is missing.

Here is an example gateway event script:

```python
def handleMessage(payload):
	url = "opc.tcp://milo.digitalpetri.com:62541/milo"
	system.opcua.addConnection(
		"TestServer", "Here is the description that won't show", 
		url, url, 
		"None", "None", 
		{}
	)

```

which I call from the designer script console with:

```python
system.util.sendMessage("TestProject", "createOpcConnection", {}, "G")

```

As you can see in the screenshot below, the `TestServer` connection is created and working just fine, but there is no description shown:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/0/c07a7ae9e2c44d74b5d041e7ebc86a85c6d3d115.png)

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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:** [October 16, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opcua-addconnection-description-not-showing/117510/4 "2026-10-16T13:29:26Z")

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I think this is a bug, and that there are probably some other resources with a similar issue... it sounds familiar. I'll have to look and see if they're open or fixed already.