# Use indirect addressing for label text?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-indirect-addressing-for-label-text/21615>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 29, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-indirect-addressing-for-label-text/21615 "2018-12-29T01:43:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rupej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rupej](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rupej)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-indirect-addressing-for-label-text/21615/1 "2018-12-29T01:43:38Z")

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Hello all,

I’m new to ignition- I’m trying to make the text of a label scroll through a list of messages based on an integer value that corresponds to the selected message. The path to each string tag is of the format: Message1/Text, Message2/Text, etc. The integer value that points to the string is a tag named MessagePointer.

I can display a single string if I just bind it to an individual tag, but when I try to use expression binding to insert the pointer tag like this: {Message{MessagePointer}/Text}, I get an error “Nested Paths Not Allowed”.

Does anyone have any advice on how to make this work? Thanks a bunch!

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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-indirect-addressing-for-label-text/21615/2 "2018-12-29T03:56:03Z")

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This is easy using indirect tag binding (screen clipping in #10 at this link shows it, though the rest may be of interest too): [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Indirect+Tag+Binding](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Indirect+Tag+Binding)

You’ll want to bind the message pointer to a property on your label and then create an indirect binding on label text which references the message pointer to complete the indirect path.

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**Author:** ![rupej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rupej](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rupej)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-indirect-addressing-for-label-text/21615/3 "2019-01-05T12:06:16Z")

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Thank you- I will give this a try!