Try to follow TAG() function syntax. BTW, a TAG name cannot be longer than 10 characters.

		INSERT INTO orderList( cTagName, tagExpression ) VALUES ;
			(TAG("", nTagCount, cAliasName), KEY("", nTagCount, cAliasName))

> In the code below, I added the line

? TAG(cAliasName, nTagCount)

as a debugging measure to try to figure out why my cTagName field was coming up empty everytime I ran this code. To my surprise, I was getting the TAG names written out to my VFP screen, but I still was getting nothing inserted into my table. Notice I'm trimming the value that I'm inserting, and none of the tag names are greater than the 50 character field width.
>
>

>LPARAMETERS cAliasName
>LOCAL nTagCount
>
>nTagCount = 1
>
>CREATE CURSOR orderList ( cTagName C(50), tagExpression C(200) )
>
>if TAGCOUNT(cAliasName) > 0
>	for nTagCount = 1 to TAGCOUNT(cAliasName)
>                  ? TAG(cAliasName, nTagCount)
>		INSERT INTO orderList( cTagName, tagExpression ) VALUES ;
>			(alltrim(TAG(cAliasName, nTagCount)), SYS(14, nTagCount, cAliasName))
>	endfor
>endif
>

>
>BTW, y'all are getting the "Thundering Train" version of the code here whereas I'm just trying to get the tags into the cursor for now & will put all proper precautions in place later. Thoughts anyone?