# Updating Tag Group Polling Rate

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-tag-group-polling-rate/69791>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, scripting, perspective\
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-tag-group-polling-rate/69791 "2023-02-13T20:39:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![wdougmiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@wdougmiller](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wdougmiller)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-tag-group-polling-rate/69791/1 "2023-02-13T20:39:22Z")

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Is it possible, either by scripting, binding to tags or some system tag, to remotely update Tag Group polling rates (Rate and Leased/Driven Rate) via either MQTT (preferred) or the Gateway Network?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-tag-group-polling-rate/69791/2 "2023-02-13T22:37:52Z")

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No, not at present. Best you can do is manipulate a driving tag.

At some point:

> [@\[Feature-2684\]Scripting - Tag group - Create / Delete](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-2684-scripting-tag-group-create-delete/47293):
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> 8.1.5 I don’t find any exemple to manage, create, delete tag group with scripting. Is there a way to do that ?

Though I doubt changing the rate at runtime is going to be a very good idea, even then.

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**Author:** ![wdougmiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@wdougmiller](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wdougmiller)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-tag-group-polling-rate/69791/3 "2023-02-14T02:07:20Z")

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I don’t think I agree with it being a bad idea 😉

Being able to update a SCADA polling engine’s rate is a necessity. If you have hundreds of edge gateways and you want to update field wide polling rates there needs to be a mechanism; that doesn’t involve logging into hundreds of designer sessions.

Even if run time is bad and restarting a gateway is required (seems a bit odd and intense…)