Use of Tag Providers

Ignition
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Hi All,

Are there any benefits to using a dedicated tag provider for each project? Is using different tag providers in the Gateway only for organizational purposes? Are there any drawbacks if I place 300K+ tags in the same tag provider in the folder structure?

Thanks,
Justin

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It is mainly organizational, to make it possible for projects to have different default hierarchies. (Each project has a default tag provider property.) Do note that UDTs are not sharable across providers. You would have to place the definitions in all providers that need them.

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Have you read the docs over at:
Tag Providers - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation (inductiveautomation.com)

How it may benefit you really depends on your system architecture. Try to optimize your system as much as possible.

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Got it. Thank you so much!