# Ignition

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## [Siemens 1200 device module not connecting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-1200-device-module-not-connecting/38945)

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**Author:** [@tpreisler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tpreisler)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-1200-device-module-not-connecting/38945 "2020-09-23T18:06:15Z")

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Hi all. background: Ignition system for our Brewery Building Management System. Primarily Allen Bradley but i recently purchased the Siemens module to add some IO to a S7-1200 controller and had it added to our licens…

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## [Dataset tag multi-state label](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dataset-tag-multi-state-label/38977)

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**Author:** [@damean.thomas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/damean.thomas)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dataset-tag-multi-state-label/38977 "2020-09-23T16:20:22Z")

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Is it possible to use a dataset tag to populate the value of a label instead of using a switch statement? For instance i create a dataset tag with value,label columns. can i bind the label value to the selected value of…

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## [Filtering active alarms based on count](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-active-alarms-based-on-count/38898)

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**Author:** [@pajmera](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pajmera)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-active-alarms-based-on-count/38898 "2020-09-23T13:57:15Z")

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Hello, I was working on a project in which the alarm status table, I want to filter the active alarms based on the occurrence. For example, for a particular machine, when it goes into the alarm state, I want to show its …

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## [Ignition Edge 8.0.16 java version](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-8-0-16-java-version/38976)

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**Author:** [@jarno.vandenberg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jarno.vandenberg)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-8-0-16-java-version/38976 "2020-09-23T13:23:09Z")

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Hello, We have a small issue with booting Ignition EDGE under Linux on a MOXA device. We have MOXA UC8100-A-ME-T with a Armv7 Cortex-A8 processor (32bit). What Java version is required to run Ignition Edge 8.0.16 Addi…

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## [32-bit Vision Client Ignition 8.0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/32-bit-vision-client-ignition-8-0/38946)

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**Author:** [@CeciliaOsorio2013](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CeciliaOsorio2013)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/32-bit-vision-client-ignition-8-0/38946 "2020-09-23T12:49:58Z")

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“As of Ignition 8, 32-bit Vision Client support was dropped; the availability of 32-bit Java Runtime Environments (JRE) will diminish overtime as the technology is slowly deprecated.” Is there a systems requirement list…

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## [Change classic chart pen colors](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-classic-chart-pen-colors/38973)

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**Author:** [@roinisan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/roinisan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-classic-chart-pen-colors/38973 "2020-09-23T09:53:56Z")

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Hello, I wish to change the pens colors of the classic chart, but I can’t find a way of doing so. Is it possible at all? thanks

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## [\[IGN-584\]Error on util.sendRequest through gateway network](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-584-error-on-util-sendrequest-through-gateway-network/38963)

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**Author:** [@mitchell-ACS](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mitchell-ACS)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-584-error-on-util-sendrequest-through-gateway-network/38963 "2020-09-23T05:07:57Z")

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I am trying out a simple sendRequest across my gateway network servers, print system.util.getGatewayAddress() returnValue = system.util.sendRequest(project='Carefree\_Systems', messageHandler='deliverRoster', payload={'t…

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## [Siemens S7-300 slow response time](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-300-slow-response-time/38925)

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**Author:** [@Sonny\_Vallgren](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sonny_Vallgren)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-300-slow-response-time/38925 "2020-09-23T03:38:53Z")

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Hi all, We have a setup using 7.9.10 connecting to a Siemens 317fpn/dp on the PLC:s internal ethernet interface. The PLC is configured to use 50% of the cpu for communication and the PLC scan cycle time is still below …

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## [Ignition Gateway v8.0.13 not working after restarting of Advantech Screen Panel (PPC-4151W)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-v8-0-13-not-working-after-restarting-of-advantech-screen-panel-ppc-4151w/38965)

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**Author:** [@yin.cheng](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/yin.cheng)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-v8-0-13-not-working-after-restarting-of-advantech-screen-panel-ppc-4151w/38965 "2020-09-23T03:00:12Z")

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Hi All I am using Advantech Screen Panel (PPC-4151w), to use it as a Ignition Edge Gateway/Ignition Gateway. When i first install the software, everything is fine, gateway running. When i do a restart of the panel, th…

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## [Perspective - evenly spacing various labels of unknown length](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-evenly-spacing-various-labels-of-unknown-length/38962)

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**Author:** [@ASF](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ASF)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-evenly-spacing-various-labels-of-unknown-length/38962 "2020-09-23T02:51:18Z")

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I have a perspective display where I want to display a series of batch parameters on a single line. For example, I want a single line of text that looks something like: Batch ID: 00001----Recipe: Class 3 Widget----Lengt…

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## [Integrating Dropdown with the Time Series Chart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/integrating-dropdown-with-the-time-series-chart/38801)

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**Author:** [@andrewk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrewk)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/integrating-dropdown-with-the-time-series-chart/38801 "2020-09-22T21:58:31Z")

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Fairly new to Ignition, and have used the Easy Chart in Vision. Now that we’re shifting over to Perspective, I’d like to emulate the functionality (custom Y-axes, multiple Y-axes, configurable time series range). So far…

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## [Transaction group millisecond](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-millisecond/38795)

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**Author:** [@MoisesZV](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MoisesZV)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-millisecond/38795 "2020-09-22T20:13:06Z")

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Hi, I have a historical group that is set to save data every 250ms to a mysql database. This is being achieved but when calling the data to an easy chart I can see that the four records that make up a second are displaye…

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## [Setting parameter values in a table subview](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-parameter-values-in-a-table-subview/38950)

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**Author:** [@pandreoli](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pandreoli)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-parameter-values-in-a-table-subview/38950 "2020-09-22T19:31:23Z")

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Hello, Im trying to create a subview for each row of my table. I followed this tutorial on doing it using column values in the row. This does the job for me, but its a bit wonky. I have an unknown number of strings that…

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## [Reading DINT in Soft Logix wrong? Binary difference](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-dint-in-soft-logix-wrong-binary-difference/38640)

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**Author:** [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-dint-in-soft-logix-wrong-binary-difference/38640 "2020-09-22T18:23:09Z")

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I know SL isn’t supported. I have a DINT tag in PLC that is being read wrong and I want to understand what is going on. ============================================================ This is another machine …

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## [Perspective - Navigate - pageId](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-pageid/38940)

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**Author:** [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-pageid/38940 "2020-09-22T16:22:13Z")

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I search a way to reach a tab with the system.perspective.navigate. What I want is to activate an existng tab.

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## [Vision RingPlot using Pie Chart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-ringplot-using-pie-chart/38912)

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**Author:** [@brian.mcenulty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brian.mcenulty)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-ringplot-using-pie-chart/38912 "2020-09-22T15:28:33Z")

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I’ve realized that the Pie Chart component has recently had a configureChart extension function added to it. This is very much appreciated to dial in the appearance of the chart. I have a Pie Chart with the “style” prope…

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## [Perspective Table Row Height in Theme](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-row-height-in-theme/38758)

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**Author:** [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-row-height-in-theme/38758 "2020-09-22T14:55:13Z")

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I know that its possible to change perspective table row heights by modifying the cells.style.height property. However I am trying to set a defualt minimum height for my application, and am unable to find where in the th…

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## [readBlocking and timeout exception](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/readblocking-and-timeout-exception/38921)

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**Author:** [@steiger](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/steiger)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/readblocking-and-timeout-exception/38921 "2020-09-22T14:50:48Z")

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Dear community, I am not able to catch a timeout exception from system.tag.readBlocking. My tag event script looks as follows: from java.util.concurrent import TimeoutException logger = system.util.getLogger("blnWrite…

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## [Duplicate Ignition Servers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicate-ignition-servers/38900)

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**Author:** [@jimjohnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jimjohnson)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicate-ignition-servers/38900 "2020-09-22T14:45:14Z")

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I have a customer in China that I setup 2 years ago with Ignition Vision and Bridge. All of a sudden now, transactions have started executing twice simultaneously which got me wondering: What would happen if you brough…

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## [How the button event binding to tags in Perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-the-button-event-binding-to-tags-in-perspective/38868)

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**Author:** [@moli501](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/moli501)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-the-button-event-binding-to-tags-in-perspective/38868 "2020-09-22T14:05:18Z")

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Hi all, I am new in Ignition Perspective, I created a button in View page to control a motor start/Stop, I want to binding its event to the tag of PLC start/stop, but it’s not available, I did it in Vision no problem, …

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## [Report in Excel Truncating Zeros](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-in-excel-truncating-zeros/38935)

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**Author:** [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-in-excel-truncating-zeros/38935 "2020-09-22T13:41:21Z")

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I have a report which has a column that is treating the column as a number and truncating important leading zeros. In the DB it is stored as a varchar, but when dumped to an excel report the leading zeros are stripped. …

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## [Navigation tab dynamic colour](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/navigation-tab-dynamic-colour/38920)

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**Author:** [@tom.wouters](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tom.wouters)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/navigation-tab-dynamic-colour/38920 "2020-09-22T12:00:02Z")

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Hello, I want the navigation tab to blink when an alarm is active on that area. Is this possible? Thanks!

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## [Writing to Database (through MQTT Recorder) Directly from MQTT Engine without MQTT Transmission](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/writing-to-database-through-mqtt-recorder-directly-from-mqtt-engine-without-mqtt-transmission/38924)

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**Author:** [@aamrc](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aamrc)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/writing-to-database-through-mqtt-recorder-directly-from-mqtt-engine-without-mqtt-transmission/38924 "2020-09-22T09:41:07Z")

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Hi, I’m very new to Ignition, and am trying to setup data storage to my MariaDB database without requiring to open Ignition Designer and setting each tags History Enabled to true. Is it possible to: Set up so that e…

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## [Defined alarms in the system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696)

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**Author:** [@latifa.rhandour](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/latifa.rhandour)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696 "2020-09-22T09:07:35Z")

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Hi, Is there a way to get the list of all the configured alarms in the system? The idea is to display in a table the list of defined alarms (with their label) so that users can see all configured alarms. Thanks in adv…

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## [Clear-entry in journal when disabling alarm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-entry-in-journal-when-disabling-alarm/38922)

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**Author:** [@martin.johansson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/martin.johansson)\
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**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-entry-in-journal-when-disabling-alarm/38922 "2020-09-22T08:46:03Z")

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Hi! I would like to automatically clear all alarms on a machine/line, and stop any new ones, when the personnel adds a manual alarm/event like lunchbreak, cleaning, format change and so on. I have tried to do this by au…

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## [Adding Values using "if" statements](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-values-using-if-statements/38130)

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**Author:** [@mhicks1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mhicks1)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-values-using-if-statements/38130 "2020-09-22T07:48:45Z")

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Good Morning, I am trying to add several values using IF statements and within those IF statements I am using TAG functions. I have tried to add these values without any TAG functions and it works fine. It currently wi…

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## [\[BUG\] Perspective: Find/Replace tool doesn't open found scripts in Views](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-find-replace-tool-doesnt-open-found-scripts-in-views/38914)

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**Author:** [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-find-replace-tool-doesnt-open-found-scripts-in-views/38914 "2020-09-22T06:02:34Z")

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v8.1.0 When you search for a script within Views and results are found, double-clicking on them opens the View but not the script it was found in.

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## [Remote Acknowledge All Alarms in Gateway Script](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-acknowledge-all-alarms-in-gateway-script/9623)

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**Author:** [@cwells](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cwells)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-acknowledge-all-alarms-in-gateway-script/9623 "2020-09-22T03:01:35Z")

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I am trying to create a 'Tag Change'-type Gateway Event script that will acknowledge all alarms for all users if a bit in the PLC turns to a one. After the acknowledgment, it will turn the bit back to zero (which is easy…

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## [Docker image for 8.0.x](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docker-image-for-8-0-x/38911)

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**Author:** [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docker-image-for-8-0-x/38911 "2020-09-21T23:32:19Z")

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Will there be any official docker images for 8.0.x? I know we have all been using the one by Kevin Collins, and I am sure that image will continue, but we all know of clients who want the the “official” Inductive automat…

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## [\[Feature-13080\]Vertical alignment of text within Link Component in Perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13080-vertical-alignment-of-text-within-link-component-in-perspective/38907)

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**Author:** [@Mark.Honeth](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Mark.Honeth)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13080-vertical-alignment-of-text-within-link-component-in-perspective/38907 "2020-09-21T23:04:30Z")

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Is this possible at the moment?

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