# Tag Event Scripts: event object properties

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-event-scripts-event-object-properties/17715>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [April 14, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-event-scripts-event-object-properties/17715 "2018-04-14T17:13:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![wakaguaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@wakaguaka](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wakaguaka)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-event-scripts-event-object-properties/17715/1 "2018-04-14T17:13:58Z")

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Hello community,  
Where can I find the documentation of the properties exposed for the “event” variable that is considered in “Tag change”?

I want to be able to get the parent path for the tag which event was fired (without the tag name of the event.tagPath property). An example of what I wish to retrieve:

```auto
parentpath = event.tagPath
parentpath = parentpath[0,len(parentpath)-len(tagname)]

```

Any feedback is appreciated

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**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:** [April 14, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-event-scripts-event-object-properties/17715/2 "2018-04-14T18:38:10Z")

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In the manual, [here](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Client+and+Gateway+Event+Scripts#ClientandGatewayEventScripts-TagChangeScripts). The [TagPath.getParentPath()](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition79/793/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/sqltags/model/TagPath.html#getParentPath--) convenience method is probably what you want.

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**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:** [April 14, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-event-scripts-event-object-properties/17715/3 "2018-04-14T18:47:30Z")

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I just noticed a flaw in the manual there. Under [Gateway Tag Change Behavior](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Client+and+Gateway+Event+Scripts#ClientandGatewayEventScripts-GatewayTagChangeBehavior), it says that such scripts cannot interact with the project. That isn’t true. They can’t interact with the project in a _client_, but they do run in project scope. They can (and should) call project.\* scripts – something event functions directly placed on tags cannot.