# Tower scanning for tags and pre-populating "exclude tags" etc.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-scanning-for-tags-and-pre-populating-exclude-tags-etc/28668>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [September 27, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-scanning-for-tags-and-pre-populating-exclude-tags-etc/28668 "2018-09-27T20:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmakovey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@dmakovey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dmakovey)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-scanning-for-tags-and-pre-populating-exclude-tags-etc/28668/1 "2018-09-27T20:56:09Z")

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Hi,

currently if I run 'ansible-playbook --list-tags playbook.yml' I get  
nice list of all tags present. However with Tower I don't have any view  
into existing tags I just have to \*know\* them. Is that the way things  
are or am I missing settings someplace to extract tags pre-execution to  
use inside of survey etc?

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Nottingham1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bill\_Nottingham1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bill_Nottingham1)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-scanning-for-tags-and-pre-populating-exclude-tags-etc/28668/2 "2018-09-27T20:59:22Z")

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Dmitry Makovey (dmakovey@stanford.edu) said:

> currently if I run 'ansible-playbook --list-tags playbook.yml' I get  
> nice list of all tags present. However with Tower I don't have any view  
> into existing tags I just have to \*know\* them. Is that the way things  
> are or am I missing settings someplace to extract tags pre-execution to  
> use inside of survey etc?

[https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/1182](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/1182)

Bill