# Ignition **URL:** https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=1120 [Latest](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1121 --- ## [Tracking shelved alarms](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tracking-shelved-alarms/38851)
**Author:** [@kcabatic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcabatic)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tracking-shelved-alarms/38851 "2020-09-24T20:55:58Z")
Is it possible to track/audit alarms that have been shelved in the past? I noticed an entry in the ‘alarm\_events’ when an alarm is shelved. The source column = ‘evt:Alarms Shelved’ However, when I am trying to get deta… --- ## [Siemens driver byteswap](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-byteswap/38553)
**Author:** [@simon.goovaerts](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/simon.goovaerts)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-byteswap/38553 "2020-09-24T20:33:07Z")
Hi all, I did some tests with the Ignition siemens driver for s7-1500 PLC’s to check how communication works exactly between Ignition and Siemens PLC. My main goal was trying to toggle a bit in a word, a self written sc… --- ## [Perspective image access issue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-image-access-issue/39037)
**Author:** [@bwirth](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bwirth)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-image-access-issue/39037 "2020-09-24T19:05:24Z")
Currently running 8.1.0-rc1 (problem persisted in 8.0.15/16 as well. I put an image in the header of a perspective page and it appears that perspective cant access the location… This is the path the perspective session… --- ## [Image Management Tool: Size Limit?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/image-management-tool-size-limit/39026)
**Author:** [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/image-management-tool-size-limit/39026 "2020-09-24T19:00:18Z")
I’m trying to upload images from a local folder into the image manager, and it is taking longer and longer for them to load. Now I can’t even open the file I loaded them into, it just locks up. Does the image manager h… --- ## [XY Chart displays blank (inconsistently) if I modify the data sources via script](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/xy-chart-displays-blank-inconsistently-if-i-modify-the-data-sources-via-script/39040)
**Author:** [@mrandell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mrandell)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/xy-chart-displays-blank-inconsistently-if-i-modify-the-data-sources-via-script/39040 "2020-09-24T18:25:12Z")
If I modify the data sources of an XY chart in a script then it’s very inconsistent whether it will display correctly or not. More often than not the chart will be completely blank. If I hard refresh the page it will us… --- ## [PDF Links in a Vision Window](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pdf-links-in-a-vision-window/39030)
**Author:** [@ddurant](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ddurant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pdf-links-in-a-vision-window/39030 "2020-09-24T18:20:25Z")
I want to create a support page for my application. A simple window with a bunch of text and links that will open PDFs located on my server. Seems pretty simple but I can’t seem to find out how to do it. I see that yo… --- ## [Ignition 8.0 insert color from the table (row)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-0-insert-color-from-the-table-row/38819)
**Author:** [@vincent.canda](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vincent.canda)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-0-insert-color-from-the-table-row/38819 "2020-09-24T17:55:38Z")
How can i insert color (example color red) from the row when the onhand quantity is less than or equal to the buffer level. Please see reference: Thank you. --- ## [\[Feature\] Perspective props.defaultSize.height to auto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-props-defaultsize-height-to-auto/39035)
**Author:** [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-props-defaultsize-height-to-auto/39035 "2020-09-24T17:51:28Z")
I dont think its possible at the moment, but is it a possible feature request to set the defaultsize of a flex container view to auto? I know that you can set the default height to something smaller than needed, and the… --- ## [BUG Ignition 8.0.16-RC1 - perspective Menu tree icon color issue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-ignition-8-0-16-rc1-perspective-menu-tree-icon-color-issue/36531)
**Author:** [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-ignition-8-0-16-rc1-perspective-menu-tree-icon-color-issue/36531 "2020-09-24T17:42:55Z")
I would like to change the icon color for the items the menu tree component: I’ve added a color properties as follow: In the designer the color is OK, but not in chrome ? what’s wrong ? --- ## [PyDataSet assigned to custom not converted to dataset anymore?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pydataset-assigned-to-custom-not-converted-to-dataset-anymore/39016)
**Author:** [@petar.zurzevic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/petar.zurzevic)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pydataset-assigned-to-custom-not-converted-to-dataset-anymore/39016 "2020-09-24T17:18:17Z")
Hi, recently after upgrading to version 8.0.16 from 8.0.13 i noticed that all my tables columns were messed up. The reason of this event apparently is that after getting a pyDataSet from system.db.runNamedQuery() and as… --- ## [Enable color borders for events in Month View component](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/enable-color-borders-for-events-in-month-view-component/39033)
**Author:** [@Bao.Nguyen1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bao.Nguyen1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/enable-color-borders-for-events-in-month-view-component/39033 "2020-09-24T17:13:03Z")
Hi there, I’m trying to create a calendar using Month View component. I can see that displayColor is the attribute that can change the color of the displayed text. However, I couldn’t find a way to change the background… --- ## [Perspective IP Address for devices](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-ip-address-for-devices/39019)
**Author:** [@keith.acierno](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/keith.acierno)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-ip-address-for-devices/39019 "2020-09-24T15:56:04Z")
Hello, I am trying to get the IP address of each perspective device to show up on a label of the device. This was pretty straight forward when using the vision tags, in vision applications. I had called in and the att… --- ## [Alarm Notification Pipeline 7.9](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-notification-pipeline-7-9/24619)
**Author:** [@shibubalaji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/shibubalaji)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-notification-pipeline-7-9/24619 "2020-09-24T15:24:21Z")
Have any one come across with a situation where you can not see the already created notification profile under ignition 7.9? Though I created a notification profile as email, I am not able to see that in the dropdown lis… --- ## [getParentWindow in Custom Method](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getparentwindow-in-custom-method/39025)
**Author:** [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getparentwindow-in-custom-method/39025 "2020-09-24T15:14:28Z")
Is there a way to get the parent window in a custom method, similar to system.gui.getParentWindow(event) without passing in a parameter? --- ## [Transaction Group DB to OPC SQL Query](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-db-to-opc-sql-query/39021)
**Author:** [@Hazmat480](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Hazmat480)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-db-to-opc-sql-query/39021 "2020-09-24T14:17:29Z")
I am having an issue with a transaction group triggered expression using a sql query. Below is my query, the item field is between 10 and 12 numeric characters. So I want to look at just the right 5 characters. The issue… --- ## [How to retrieve gateway time and/or timezone offset in vision client?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-retrieve-gateway-time-and-or-timezone-offset-in-vision-client/38997)
**Author:** [@DerekUlee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DerekUlee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-retrieve-gateway-time-and-or-timezone-offset-in-vision-client/38997 "2020-09-23T20:39:21Z")
I have a project that is deployed to multiple gateways. These gateways are on many different timezones and when I pull data back from the database server which is on the same server as the gateway I need to account for t… --- ## [Wireless barcode scanner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947)
**Author:** [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947 "2020-09-24T13:32:17Z")
Does anyone have any experience with wireless barcode scanners connecting back to Ignition? At this point, I don’t have many details, like distance, but the desire is to scan a barcode and then do something like SQL ins… --- ## [CPU Usage Trend](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cpu-usage-trend/39017)
**Author:** [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cpu-usage-trend/39017 "2020-09-24T13:28:07Z")
I am working on the development server connected to few databases and only 1 field device. Although there aren’t really a response issues when working with Client, the CPU trend is bothering me a lot. It flicks to almos… --- ## [Get a List of all possible User Roles](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-a-list-of-all-possible-user-roles/39018)
**Author:** [@elliot.lohr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/elliot.lohr)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-a-list-of-all-possible-user-roles/39018 "2020-09-24T13:03:33Z")
Hey all, is there any built in scripting functions that get all possible user roles a user can have? I know there are a couple that exist to get the roles assigned to a currently signed in user, or one that can retrieve … --- ## [How to highlight items already selected in the list component (vision)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-highlight-items-already-selected-in-the-list-component-vision/38884)
**Author:** [@praneethmuktheeswara](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/praneethmuktheeswara)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-highlight-items-already-selected-in-the-list-component-vision/38884 "2020-09-24T12:40:03Z")
Hi, I am trying to use the list component for multiple selections. I am able to select multiple items and save to the database. But I am not able to view the items selected at a later stage after switching screens or cl… --- ## [AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'data' on Power Table double-click](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/attributeerror-unicode-object-has-no-attribute-data-on-power-table-double-click/38971)
**Author:** [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/attributeerror-unicode-object-has-no-attribute-data-on-power-table-double-click/38971 "2020-09-24T12:21:04Z")
I am trying to edit a Power Table which has been successfully populated with data merged from a couple of CSV files. def UpdateParamEditTable(): import system import sys window = system.gui.getWindow("Main Windows/… --- ## [Is it possible to set \`History Enabled\` = \`true\` by default for new tags?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-set-history-enabled-true-by-default-for-new-tags/39015)
**Author:** [@aamrc](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aamrc)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-set-history-enabled-true-by-default-for-new-tags/39015 "2020-09-24T11:06:39Z")
Hi, Using the Ignition Tag Historian. Is it possible to make all new tags recorded to database by default with a Storage Provider of my choice? At the moment I can only see a manual process on Ignition Designer. Art --- ## [Expression Tags Evaluation](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-tags-evaluation/38897)
**Author:** [@pgmo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pgmo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-tags-evaluation/38897 "2020-09-24T08:37:56Z")
I’d like to better understand the way expression tags are evaluated. Suppose I have two tags in the Tags root folder Tag1 and Tag2. I then define an expression tag TagResult whose expression is {\[~\]Tag1}+{\[~\]Tag2}. How i… --- ## [Perspective: Forcing a property value to a particular type](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-forcing-a-property-value-to-a-particular-type/39007)
**Author:** [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-forcing-a-property-value-to-a-particular-type/39007 "2020-09-24T06:35:37Z")
How do I force a property value to a particular type and avoid the automatic type casting? I’m getting an error setting the props.textvalue of a checkbox to the infinity symbol due to it recognising infinity as a number… --- ## [Alarm queryStatus: Read label of the alarm object](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-querystatus-read-label-of-the-alarm-object/38903)
**Author:** [@vrautomation](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vrautomation)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-querystatus-read-label-of-the-alarm-object/38903 "2020-09-24T03:38:09Z")
Ignition 8.0.12 I’m doing a queryStatus to get the list of all active alarms. I need to loop trought the list of alarm objects and read the label property of each alarm. I’m sure it’s not that hard, but can’t find any… --- ## [Transaction Groups in Perspective Sessions](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-groups-in-perspective-sessions/39006)
**Author:** [@morgan.mcclean](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/morgan.mcclean)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-groups-in-perspective-sessions/39006 "2020-09-24T01:31:30Z")
Hi, I was wondering if I could get some help regarding the following re Transaction Groups: Is it possible to see the status of a Transaction group in the corresponding Perspective Session? So that I can be notified i… --- ## [Need help charting within a container](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-help-charting-within-a-container/38955)
**Author:** [@casey](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/casey)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-help-charting-within-a-container/38955 "2020-09-23T21:24:36Z")
Sorry, I am still very new to this program that was dropped into my lap. I am trying to get a history chart working in a container that will vary the contents based on the sensor the container is tied to. To put it dif… --- ## [Issue querying alarms through gateway network](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-querying-alarms-through-gateway-network/39000)
**Author:** [@mitchell-ACS](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mitchell-ACS)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-querying-alarms-through-gateway-network/39000 "2020-09-23T20:57:04Z")
I am trying to set up an AlarmStatus table in Perspective that is looking for alarms through another gateway on the gateway network, however, whenever this page is used as a page or docked view, my application speed suff… --- ## [Taghistory Question](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/taghistory-question/38994)
**Author:** [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/taghistory-question/38994 "2020-09-23T20:20:24Z")
I feel dumb here… I am trying to use system.tag.queryTagHistory() to get a tag value 5 minutes ago, and the value now, so that I can calculate rate of change. I feel like I have tried everything under the sun and cant … --- ## [Vision IP Camera Viewer High CPU](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-ip-camera-viewer-high-cpu/38909)
**Author:** [@bmusson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmusson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-ip-camera-viewer-high-cpu/38909 "2020-09-23T19:54:29Z")
When trying to display an MJPEG stream in Vision I’m encountering crazy CPU usage, much higher than when I view the stream in Chrome. Stream Stats: 800 x 450 resolution 60 fps ~1,200 kbps Chrome: ~5% CPU Vision IP … [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=1119) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=1121)