# system.tag.addTag

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag/9184>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 16, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag/9184 "2014-10-16T20:49:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tim/32/3361_2.png) [@Tim](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tim)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag/9184/1 "2014-10-16T20:49:54Z")

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Is there a way I can pass the tag name into the system.tag.tagAdd function?

system.tag.addTag(parentPath=“Folder”, name=’%s’, tagType=“MEMORY”, dataType=“Boolean”, value=0)

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**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag/9184/2 "2014-10-17T01:20:17Z")

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Something like this?

`newTagName = 'MyTagName'
system.tag.addTag(parentPath="Folder", name=newTagName, tagType="MEMORY", dataType="Boolean", value=0)`