# Latest **URL:** https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md?page=1383 [Latest](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1384 --- ## [Renaming Alarm Table Column Names](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/renaming-alarm-table-column-names/23320)
**Author:** [@taro.deneve](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/taro.deneve)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/renaming-alarm-table-column-names/23320 "2020-03-26T19:29:39Z")
Hi, I’m trying to rename columns of an alarm table, but it doesn’t seem to able to. Ideally, I’d like to change “Display Path” to “Equipment” Has anyone worked out a method to do this? I’m using Ignition 7.9.10 Thank… --- ## [Play a Video on Ignition 7.9](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/play-a-video-on-ignition-7-9/33453)
**Author:** [@DD\_Chelsea](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DD_Chelsea)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/play-a-video-on-ignition-7-9/33453 "2020-03-26T19:18:18Z")
Hello guys, good morning. Is there any way to play a video in Ignition 7.9? I have a video locally located in my desktop and i would like to play it on Ignition. Thanks in advance for the help and support. Regards. --- ## [Tags using Transaction Groups](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tags-using-transaction-groups/33456)
**Author:** [@john.ackley](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/john.ackley)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tags-using-transaction-groups/33456 "2020-03-26T19:10:48Z")
Is there a best practice in setting up tags using that you will be using in transaction groups? Do you need to set the tags up as historical tags in the tag editor? If yes, that seems redundant to me. Will that use up da… --- ## [Difference between Property binding and Tag binding](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/difference-between-property-binding-and-tag-binding/33450)
**Author:** [@chanakya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chanakya)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/difference-between-property-binding-and-tag-binding/33450 "2020-03-26T17:56:16Z")
Hi Guys, I am new to Ignition. Can any one tell me the difference between Tag binding and Property bindings? As both are using tags for binding. When to use property bindings. --- ## [Dropdown Not Enabled Exception in thread](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-enabled-exception-in-thread/33454)
**Author:** [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-enabled-exception-in-thread/33454 "2020-03-26T17:28:27Z")
Vision 8.0.10, noticed when you click on a dropdown when it’s not enabled it will log the following: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException This happens regardless if property is bound or… --- ## [Demo project of ignition 8](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/demo-project-of-ignition-8/33445)
**Author:** [@rrajatrcs](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rrajatrcs)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/demo-project-of-ignition-8/33445 "2020-03-26T17:16:16Z")
i download a ignition demo project from ignition exchange but i am unable to sign in after restoring gateway backup. what is the username and password ? --- ## [Double Fire on Property Change Event When Publishing to Project](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/double-fire-on-property-change-event-when-publishing-to-project/33433)
**Author:** [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/double-fire-on-property-change-event-when-publishing-to-project/33433 "2020-03-26T15:00:57Z")
I have a property change event on a component, and it works perfect except that it fires whenever I update the project and the oldValue is still 0. Any ideas on how to mitigate this? if event.propertyName == 'value': … --- ## [Load PDF Viewer in popup](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/load-pdf-viewer-in-popup/33428)
**Author:** [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/load-pdf-viewer-in-popup/33428 "2020-03-26T14:53:42Z")
I’m storing data/BLOB in MySQL to view PDFs. I can easily get things to work if the PDF Viewer is in the window where I’m ‘calling’ the database. event.source.parent.getComponent('PDF Viewer').loadPDFBytes(bytes,name) … --- ## [Newby question about updating redundant project](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newby-question-about-updating-redundant-project/33430)
**Author:** [@Henk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henk)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/newby-question-about-updating-redundant-project/33430 "2020-03-26T14:51:15Z")
Newby question about updating redundant project. In an existing redudant project, a number of windows and templates have to be changed. These adjustments have been put in a .zip file with a partial export. Since my exp… --- ## [Tag History - Data Integrity of 0, gaps in data on trends](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-data-integrity-of-0-gaps-in-data-on-trends/33439)
**Author:** [@justin.huggins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justin.huggins)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-data-integrity-of-0-gaps-in-data-on-trends/33439 "2020-03-26T14:25:10Z")
I am having several gaps in my trends and have been researching it and found that data integrity is popping up as 0 sometimes. When it shows 0, does not populate on the trends, only data integrity of 192 will populate t… --- ## [Changing text colour based on tag value](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-text-colour-based-on-tag-value/25958)
**Author:** [@andyg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andyg)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-text-colour-based-on-tag-value/25958 "2020-03-26T14:14:33Z")
Hi, I am trying to change the text colour of a numeric label, based on whether its tag value is greater than or less than another tags value. I’m not sure if this can be done with scripting or within the style customize… --- ## [Insert historical tag into Box and Whisker chart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/insert-historical-tag-into-box-and-whisker-chart/33436)
**Author:** [@Mitchel.Gommers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Mitchel.Gommers)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/insert-historical-tag-into-box-and-whisker-chart/33436 "2020-03-26T14:02:02Z")
I get an error when i insert a historical tag to the Box and Whisker chart. The error is: t\_stamp ’ is not numeric. I dragged the tag from the available historical tags to the selected historical tags. Is this the rig… --- ## [Occasional missed data binding on dropdowns?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/occasional-missed-data-binding-on-dropdowns/33434)
**Author:** [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/occasional-missed-data-binding-on-dropdowns/33434 "2020-03-26T14:00:18Z")
Using Ignition 8.0.6. I have a simple screen of 5 drop downs, where the top dropdown is has a list of all our customers, and when that is selected, the next dropdown finds all locations based on that customer, then the … --- ## [Build-in class to serialize a dataset to XML?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/build-in-class-to-serialize-a-dataset-to-xml/33426)
**Author:** [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/build-in-class-to-serialize-a-dataset-to-xml/33426 "2020-03-26T13:21:29Z")
I’m looking for a class in SDK to serialize a dataset to XML in order to create the Dataset part of this file: \ \ \ \ … --- ## [Chart Bar and Line Positions](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-bar-and-line-positions/27525)
**Author:** [@dturner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dturner)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-bar-and-line-positions/27525 "2020-03-26T13:01:41Z")
I created the chart below and was wondering if there is a way to bring the line to the front or send the bars to the back. I am using version Ignition 7.9.5 --- ## [How To Set SameSite on Gateway? Release 8.0.10](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-set-samesite-on-gateway-release-8-0-10/33423)
**Author:** [@ascriven](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ascriven)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-set-samesite-on-gateway-release-8-0-10/33423 "2020-03-26T12:50:49Z")
I am having an issue where an embedded perspective view no longer works in Google Chrome. I believe this is due to Google Chrome recently defaulting the SameSite attribute to "Strict" unless specified otherwise. The rel… --- ## [Send messages to windows event log?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-messages-to-windows-event-log/33367)
**Author:** [@Sonny\_Vallgren](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sonny_Vallgren)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-messages-to-windows-event-log/33367 "2020-03-26T09:12:05Z")
Has anyone managed to send messages to windows event log from script? Thanks in advance! --- ## [Syncronyzing Transaction Group Time Stamps](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/syncronyzing-transaction-group-time-stamps/33379)
**Author:** [@wpmccormick](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wpmccormick)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/syncronyzing-transaction-group-time-stamps/33379 "2020-03-26T01:46:33Z")
I have an application that has a number of transaction groups that need to be reported on using a common timestamp. Each group is set to use either a 5 or 15 sec interval, and triggered on some event common to, and sign… --- ## [\[BUG-16234\] Reporting module missing in designer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-16234-reporting-module-missing-in-designer/33332)
**Author:** [@wrooney](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wrooney)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-16234-reporting-module-missing-in-designer/33332 "2020-03-25T17:02:34Z")
After upgrading from v8.0.7 to v8.0.10 the reporting module does not show up in the designer. Output console shows a log stating that the Reporting module is skipped due to Perspective not being installed. Installing the… --- ## [Unfamiliar Scripting: component.initialize()](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unfamiliar-scripting-component-initialize/33373)
**Author:** [@AIO](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AIO)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unfamiliar-scripting-component-initialize/33373 "2020-03-25T22:15:18Z")
Hey folks, I ran into a script / function that I’m unfamiliar with today and cannot seem to find it documented anywhere. Hoping someone can help point me to some documentation. The entirety of the property change script… --- ## [TimeSeriesChart timeAxies tick doesn't render correctly in v8.0.10](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-timeaxies-tick-doesnt-render-correctly-in-v8-0-10/33349)
**Author:** [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-timeaxies-tick-doesnt-render-correctly-in-v8-0-10/33349 "2020-03-25T21:19:42Z")
Hi When user change the time range duration the timeAxies tick get messy and time to time doesn’t render correctly. Most the time the tick doesn’t distribute evenly. --- ## [Creating Custom Dropdown using Popups](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-custom-dropdown-using-popups/33252)
**Author:** [@david.folkner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/david.folkner)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-custom-dropdown-using-popups/33252 "2020-03-25T21:08:56Z")
I attempting to make a more custom drop down that the typical dropdown within the perspective components. The goal is to click the grouping, and have the options menu appear below (overlapping the existing content). Se… --- ## [Licensing in virtual environment](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licensing-in-virtual-environment/33416)
**Author:** [@mori.luca](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mori.luca)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/licensing-in-virtual-environment/33416 "2020-03-25T21:05:54Z")
Hi, I need to start a project where I will deploy on a WmWare ESX Server, with multiple nodes using DRS for balancing purposes. Will I have any problem with my license? Thanks for your time --- ## [system.tag.addTag - alarmConfig](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441)
**Author:** [@bryce.troy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bryce.troy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-tag-addtag-alarmconfig/10441 "2020-03-25T20:55:06Z")
Following the example from the manual, I am able to successfully create tags with alarms on the fly. Only problem left is trying to set the "mode" attribute - I would like the alarm trigger to be != 0. Here is what I hav… --- ## [\[project\] ActiveMQ Integration](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-activemq-integration/15535)
**Author:** [@cmisztur2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmisztur2)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-activemq-integration/15535 "2020-03-25T20:09:11Z")
JMS Messaging Support for Ignition Projects Configure Messaging Broker Install ActiveMQ on a server and configure it. (INSTALLATION and CONFIGURATION 1. Install latest Java x64 JRE 2. Down - Pastebin.com) Get an… --- ## [HsqlDataStore Error In Gateway Logs 8.0.8](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hsqldatastore-error-in-gateway-logs-8-0-8/32447)
**Author:** [@WillMT10](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WillMT10)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hsqldatastore-error-in-gateway-logs-8-0-8/32447 "2020-03-25T20:04:47Z")
Yesterday we performed an upgrade from 7.9.12 to 8.0.8. We are regularly getting a batch of errors in the logs for the HsqlDataStore “Error deserializing data from data store”. We get ~50 of these errors per batch. Ev… --- ## [Centering text on an alarm status table?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/centering-text-on-an-alarm-status-table/33409)
**Author:** [@bmeyers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmeyers)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/centering-text-on-an-alarm-status-table/33409 "2020-03-25T19:29:25Z")
I might be blind because I can’t find out how to center the text (table header and values) on an alarm status table component. Can anyone point out where this feature is? --- ## [Alarm Pipeline retired](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-pipeline-retired/11548)
**Author:** [@sudhamoorthy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sudhamoorthy)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-pipeline-retired/11548 "2020-03-25T18:43:53Z")
Hi, I have configured alarm notification pipelines in my project. When alarm occurs, it should email a list of users in rosters. In my console, first it says, pipeline started and then immediately it is retired. A… --- ## [How to calculate moving-window values](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-calculate-moving-window-values/33244)
**Author:** [@joshua.rowlison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshua.rowlison)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-calculate-moving-window-values/33244 "2020-03-25T17:58:52Z")
Hello all, I’m gonna try and generalize my quesition so the answers will be useful for more than just me. The situation I’m facing is this: I have a machine, from which I can extract the current production count. I’ve … --- ## [Not getting email for ack pipeline after active email works in 7.9](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-getting-email-for-ack-pipeline-after-active-email-works-in-7-9/33384)
**Author:** [@lkruper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lkruper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-getting-email-for-ack-pipeline-after-active-email-works-in-7-9/33384 "2020-03-25T17:05:34Z")
I am creating an alarm tag in script with both an active and ack pipeline. I get the email when active is triggered, but not when I acknowledge it. The ack pipeline is an exact copy of the active one and when I swit… [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md?page=1382) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md?page=1384)