# Use of tag() binding in expressions is bad?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 18, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-of-tag-binding-in-expressions-is-bad/114558 "2026-03-18T19:22:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyler.bennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@tyler.bennett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tyler.bennett)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-of-tag-binding-in-expressions-is-bad/114558/22 "2026-03-25T07:22:13Z")

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> [@pturmel](#):
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> Maybe someone needs to write ~~an Ignition For Dummies~~ _a Beginner's Guide To Ignition_ ...

The forum is super handy but knowledge is dispersed. I wonder if perhaps IA could/should host a community wiki where best practices and such from community experts and IA team could be combined, consolidated and refined/expounded upon over time in a way that the forum doesn't generally accommodate.  
I often come across some older IA articles like this one ([https://support.inductiveautomation.com/hc/en-us/articles/13578100743053-Cloning-a-VM](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/hc/en-us/articles/13578100743053-Cloning-a-VM)) that are useful but [outdated and somewhat wrong/misleading](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cloning-a-virtual-machine-vm-ignition-v8-3-updates/114661) for the current version of Ignition. In wiki form something like that could be corrected/updated by the community.  
Has that idea been discussed much before?

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