# Template using UDT param: Can you access UDT tag metadata?

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**Created:** [June 28, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-using-udt-param-can-you-access-udt-tag-metadata/10179 "2015-06-28T14:43:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-using-udt-param-can-you-access-udt-tag-metadata/10179/5 "2017-04-11T01:27:42Z")

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I would always use the tag path way and would avoid using UDT template parameters altogether. I’ve been bitten before when a new UDT was created which was fairly similar and I wanted to reuse the same templates and detail pages, but due to the template and page using a pre-defined UDT parameter, I couldn’t. I ended up re-coding these templates and pages to instead use the tag path which allows a lot more flexibility in the future for reuse.

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