# Ignition **URL:** https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=921 [Latest](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/tags.md) **Page:** 922 --- ## [Upgrading from 7.9.10 to 8.1.12 broke the socket() connection to a Ziath scanner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/upgrading-from-7-9-10-to-8-1-12-broke-the-socket-connection-to-a-ziath-scanner/53818)
**Author:** [@bmeyers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmeyers)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/upgrading-from-7-9-10-to-8-1-12-broke-the-socket-connection-to-a-ziath-scanner/53818 "2021-12-08T13:51:08Z")
A customer recently upgraded from 7.9.10 to 8.1.12 which upgraded Jython from 2.5 to 2.7 from what I can gather. They were using some socket() functions to talk to this Ziath scanner here: After the Gateway upgrade we… --- ## [Ignition hit java exception](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-hit-java-exception/53877)
**Author:** [@gkchan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gkchan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-hit-java-exception/53877 "2021-12-08T11:37:09Z")
While ignition client is running on PC, it hits java.exe error whereby “The program java.exe version 11.48.0.22 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed” What does this error imply and how can we resolve this is… --- ## [Perspective - Image - Brightness/Contrast](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-image-brightness-contrast/53847)
**Author:** [@luc.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/luc.martin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-image-brightness-contrast/53847 "2021-12-08T11:29:37Z")
8.1.12 Is there a way to be able to adjust brightness and contrast of an image in perspective ? --- ## [Perspective Date Time Input Component](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-date-time-input-component/53873)
**Author:** [@Yatika\_Goel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Yatika_Goel)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-date-time-input-component/53873 "2021-12-08T09:58:59Z")
By default , which timezone be display by date time input component? --- ## [Stora tag History as Gateway event](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/stora-tag-history-as-gateway-event/53872)
**Author:** [@Thomas\_Putteman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Thomas_Putteman)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/stora-tag-history-as-gateway-event/53872 "2021-12-08T09:09:54Z")
Hi all, I feel like I am missing a small thing here. I’ve created a script for storing tag history in a database by using system.tag.storeTagHistory() In the first stage I’ve triggered the script directly to a button.… --- ## [Needs to update perspective table using SQL query through scripting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/needs-to-update-perspective-table-using-sql-query-through-scripting/53832)
**Author:** [@Baskar\_Arumugam](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Baskar_Arumugam)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/needs-to-update-perspective-table-using-sql-query-through-scripting/53832 "2021-12-08T08:07:19Z")
One customised table was designed for some functions. That table data property is bound to an SQL query so that the SQL data can be monitored in the table itself. Now I want to update the SQL data from the table by selec… --- ## [Want to combine data and time input](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/want-to-combine-data-and-time-input/53833)
**Author:** [@Ajaykumar\_Unhale](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ajaykumar_Unhale)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/want-to-combine-data-and-time-input/53833 "2021-12-08T07:37:09Z")
Hello I use two DateTimeInput component’s. 1 shows only date and 2 shows time only. I want to combine data and time and show this on label. I do this but return type is a string not a date and time concat(dateFormat(… --- ## [Unable to Close FileChannel, opened with NIO](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-close-filechannel-opened-with-nio/53861)
**Author:** [@jespinmartin1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jespinmartin1)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-close-filechannel-opened-with-nio/53861 "2021-12-08T01:14:40Z")
I’m running a script where I want to get byte channel from file. Everything works fine, “apparently”. because when ever I try to delete the file I’m getting this Of course I’m closing the channel path = Paths.get("C:… --- ## [\[Perspective Tables\] Rows Conditional Formatting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-tables-rows-conditional-formatting/52284)
**Author:** [@Davide3i](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Davide3i)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-tables-rows-conditional-formatting/52284 "2021-12-07T21:28:57Z")
I’m trying to customize the background colour of my table’s rows following the instructions of this topic: \[Feedback\] NEW Perspective Table. I’ve appended a new style object to every data element through a binding, but … --- ## [Using tags inside SQL WHERE clause in Memory Tags](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-tags-inside-sql-where-clause-in-memory-tags/53858)
**Author:** [@AlexZanduR](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlexZanduR)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-tags-inside-sql-where-clause-in-memory-tags/53858 "2021-12-07T20:20:31Z")
Getting syntax error when trying to test Memory Tag. Not sure how I can call the tag in the WHERE clause. ERROR\_ExpressionEval(“ERROR: syntax error at or near “05” Position: 91”) --- ## [Perspective Table - onEditCellStart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315)
**Author:** [@djones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/djones)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-oneditcellstart/37315 "2021-12-07T18:43:23Z")
I’d like to highlight the contents of a cell when it opens to be edited. I am pretty sure I need to use the onEditCellStart event, but cannot figure out how to select the text in the cell being edited. --- ## [Replace Error on UDT OPC Path](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replace-error-on-udt-opc-path/53835)
**Author:** [@james4](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/james4)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replace-error-on-udt-opc-path/53835 "2021-12-07T18:38:15Z")
Search result ‘\[default\]types/Old/E\_Nickel/UDT\_MS/FLT/NON\_CRIT\_STATUS.opcItemPath’ is not a String Good day, I am receiving this error after I try to replace the OPC Path Device Name on my UDT tags. We changed our … --- ## [Embedded View Loading Order is 'after-parent' by default contrary to documentation, and more](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/embedded-view-loading-order-is-after-parent-by-default-contrary-to-documentation-and-more/53850)
**Author:** [@robert.yevdokimov](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robert.yevdokimov)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/embedded-view-loading-order-is-after-parent-by-default-contrary-to-documentation-and-more/53850 "2021-12-07T18:01:19Z")
See title, as well the loading order property does not show up for the find/replace function. Currently on 8.1.13-rc1 but suspect this was an issue before this version since the objects were already instantiated prior t… --- ## [Optimizing Embedded View Scaling](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/optimizing-embedded-view-scaling/53752)
**Author:** [@robert.yevdokimov](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robert.yevdokimov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/optimizing-embedded-view-scaling/53752 "2021-12-07T18:04:36Z")
I am currently working on optimizing our application that currently has a panning/zooming function with many separate SVGs on one screen. My question is with embedded views does the browser effectively have to do the cal… --- ## [Add QR Code at user defined coordinates into PDF. So, New PDF=OLD PDF +QR Code. How do I achieve this?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-qr-code-at-user-defined-coordinates-into-pdf-so-new-pdf-old-pdf-qr-code-how-do-i-achieve-this/53846)
**Author:** [@urvishmehta92](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/urvishmehta92)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/add-qr-code-at-user-defined-coordinates-into-pdf-so-new-pdf-old-pdf-qr-code-how-do-i-achieve-this/53846 "2021-12-07T16:52:40Z")
Hello Everyone, I am trying to edit PDF File inside Ignition. Basically adding one QR Code to existing PDF file and then I want to print it. Is it possible? Let me know. Thanks in Advance! --- ## [Ignition user-lib packages](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-user-lib-packages/53794)
**Author:** [@chaoliang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaoliang)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-user-lib-packages/53794 "2021-12-07T15:22:30Z")
I am trying to use xlsxwriter to generate report on excel. But I found that this package was not installed on the ignition gateway under “C:\\Program Files\\Inductive Automation\\Ignition\\user-lib\\pylib”. I thought this pa… --- ## [Alarm tag value not coming out in notification](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-tag-value-not-coming-out-in-notification/53839)
**Author:** [@spm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/spm)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-tag-value-not-coming-out-in-notification/53839 "2021-12-07T15:20:31Z")
Hello, I am using ignition 8.1.6 on Windows Server. I have alarms set on several tags and they function as normal. I have one tag where the customer wants to get the Value of the tag into the alarm notification. Soun… --- ## [NFC Ndef Scanned, read serial number](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nfc-ndef-scanned-read-serial-number/53838)
**Author:** [@andreas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andreas)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nfc-ndef-scanned-read-serial-number/53838 "2021-12-07T15:09:33Z")
Hi all :slightly\_smiling\_face: We have some NFC tags that we would like to read different values from. If we use NFC Tools to read the different tags, we can see information about the serial number, type, etc. In the… --- ## [On demand sidebar dock](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/on-demand-sidebar-dock/53837)
**Author:** [@pkhoshroo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pkhoshroo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/on-demand-sidebar-dock/53837 "2021-12-07T14:59:20Z")
Hello all, I have a sidebar dock in my perspective session with the setting below: When I launch the project, the sidebar is always open although I specified it to be on-demand. I do not know what I am doing wrong h… --- ## [Public variables](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/public-variables/53451)
**Author:** [@jchancey7175](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jchancey7175)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/public-variables/53451 "2021-12-07T14:49:22Z")
I realize this topic may or may not have been touched on. But, how can I pass variables from one page to another? --- ## [ResourceNamingException: Cannot add child](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resourcenamingexception-cannot-add-child/53836)
**Author:** [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resourcenamingexception-cannot-add-child/53836 "2021-12-07T14:20:35Z")
I’m messing around with project inheritance in v8.1 and I can’t open one of my projects now, and I don’t understand the error message or how to fix it. IllegalArgumentException: com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.p… --- ## [Power Table Cell Editor Date Picker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-cell-editor-date-picker/14630)
**Author:** [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-cell-editor-date-picker/14630 "2021-12-07T11:29:09Z")
I was able to configure a cell editor to use a date picker. However it throws an error: Can't import name JCalendar which makes sense because it doesn't exist. If I remove it, it then can't find the JCalendar. If I … --- ## [Loading splash on each page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-splash-on-each-page/53797)
**Author:** [@manjuyadav95.m](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/manjuyadav95.m)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-splash-on-each-page/53797 "2021-12-07T08:27:19Z")
@Kevin.Herron @nminchin @cmallonee @victordcq In my project, there are multiple screens as below and I’m getting this authenticating, connecting, and loading resources on each screen while opening …Is there any option t… --- ## [Perspective Table, dataset help](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-dataset-help/53816)
**Author:** [@mjohnson0238](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mjohnson0238)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-dataset-help/53816 "2021-12-07T08:01:24Z")
Im looking for someone to help me craft some scripting to make my dataset table change a row/cell color to red if the 'Delivered" column has a timestamp and the “Quad\_Scan” column has ‘Not Scanned’ in the row/cell. I am… --- ## [Modbus Serial on Moxa UC-8100A-ME-T always connecting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/modbus-serial-on-moxa-uc-8100a-me-t-always-connecting/53817)
**Author:** [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/modbus-serial-on-moxa-uc-8100a-me-t-always-connecting/53817 "2021-12-06T23:54:10Z")
So as the title says, I’ve got a Moxa UC-8100A-ME-T that the particular model we were able to find in stock only came with ThingsPro, so we installed Ignition Edge on it as well. While the device is very slow to boot and… --- ## [Using "IF" in UDT OPCItemPath](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-if-in-udt-opcitempath/53801)
**Author:** [@DSandy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DSandy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-if-in-udt-opcitempath/53801 "2021-12-06T22:52:57Z")
We have a UDT with tags defined for 2 sets of three phase voltages (so a total of six items). The OPCItemPath is configured to use {Instance Name} and all works as intended. VA1, VB1, and VC1 are assigned to items 5,6,7 … --- ## [Error in Tag History Configuration](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-in-tag-history-configuration/53708)
**Author:** [@Kevin\_Fabian\_Santiag](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin_Fabian_Santiag)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-in-tag-history-configuration/53708 "2021-12-06T22:51:55Z")
Hello everyone! I have a question regarding an error that appears in the binding of the historical tag type. Let me explain a little bit the error: I have an embedded view that has data in its custom properties that pas… --- ## [Mapping a tag output from 1000 input values](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mapping-a-tag-output-from-1000-input-values/46483)
**Author:** [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mapping-a-tag-output-from-1000-input-values/46483 "2021-12-06T21:56:39Z")
Is there a way to get the map transform on a tag so I can map all 1000 variations of a tag I am reading as input to multiple columns of outputs? And how so I easily access those outputs? Here is what I am trying to do. … --- ## [Bad("Bad\_NotWritable: The access level does not allow writing to the Node.")](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bad-bad-notwritable-the-access-level-does-not-allow-writing-to-the-node/53813)
**Author:** [@ftuquabo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ftuquabo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bad-bad-notwritable-the-access-level-does-not-allow-writing-to-the-node/53813 "2021-12-06T21:53:54Z")
I received the following error message: “Error writing to value.value: Bad(“Bad\_NotWritable: The access level does not allow writing to the Node.”)” I’m currently not connected to the PLC and ReadOnly is unchecked. I’… --- ## [Overview page of multiple Ignition projects](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/overview-page-of-multiple-ignition-projects/53795)
**Author:** [@chaoliang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaoliang)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/overview-page-of-multiple-ignition-projects/53795 "2021-12-06T21:10:30Z")
I have multiple ignition projects running on the gateway. I would like to create a overview page listing all projects and by clicking on any project icon(a site image), it will direct to the clicked project main page. C… [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=920) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/c/ignition/6.md?page=922)