# Feature Request: Adding Event Names to Metadata

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/feature-request-adding-event-names-to-metadata/20070>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/feature-request-adding-event-names-to-metadata/20070 "2023-04-05T02:01:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![zanhulme](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/zanhulme/32/5069_2.png) [@zanhulme](https://qa.fmod.com/u/zanhulme)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/feature-request-adding-event-names-to-metadata/20070/1 "2023-04-05T02:01:59Z")

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I use Git to collaborate with multiple sound designers on a single project, and this works fine, but sometimes it can be hard to tell which events people have modified.

When I made changes to events in FMOD Studio, the metadata for these events show up as changed in my Git client, listed by their GUID, not their event name — this is fine and dandy and to be expected. However, if there’s a clash during a merge and I need to decide which contributor’s changes to keep, I need to export the GUIDS from FMOD Studio and look-up the event’s GUID on the list before I can even know which event I’m looking at.

Could there perhaps be a line added somewhere near the top of the metadata that includes the event name, so that when I’m looking at changes in Git I can quickly tell which event I’m looking at?

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**Author:** ![Leah\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/leah_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Leah\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Leah_FMOD)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/feature-request-adding-event-names-to-metadata/20070/2 "2023-04-05T03:00:02Z")

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Hi,

The event name should be listed as one of the first (typically the first, unless you’ve set a note on the event) XML “property” attribute tags in it’\s metadata, with the tag `<property name="name">`. As an example, for an event named “CarEngine”, it would look like this:

```auto
        <property name="name">
			<value>CarEngine</value>
        </property>

```

If you’re not seeing it, could I get you to provide your FMOD Studio version?

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**Author:** ![zanhulme](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/zanhulme/32/5069_2.png) [@zanhulme](https://qa.fmod.com/u/zanhulme)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/feature-request-adding-event-names-to-metadata/20070/3 "2023-04-05T04:09:08Z")

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Oh now I feel foolish — looks like my Git client (Fork) wasn’t showing the first lines of the file because it only shows the lines in the section that have changes. So I can just open the file externally and read it.