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**Author:** [@melwadeya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/melwadeya)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-tab-component/31175 "2020-01-09T13:03:44Z")
Hi everyone, I am trying to do the following in the Perspective Tab container: 1- change the orientation of the tabs from horizontal to vertical. 2- add an image to the tab header: e.g. for a home tab, I want to use a… --- ## [\[bug-11887\]Alarm Pipeline Fails to send (SMTP Profile working)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-11887-alarm-pipeline-fails-to-send-smtp-profile-working/31129)
**Author:** [@AIO](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AIO)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-11887-alarm-pipeline-fails-to-send-smtp-profile-working/31129 "2020-01-08T23:01:39Z")
Hey folks, Ignition 7.9.3 I’m working with an SMTP server with a username without a password, trying to send alarms. See below for where I’m at with it. Settings proven via system.net.sendEmail. Adding a dummy passwo… --- ## [Error on Expression Tag, runScript not working](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-on-expression-tag-runscript-not-working/31165)
**Author:** [@cesrom](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cesrom)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-on-expression-tag-runscript-not-working/31165 "2020-01-08T21:45:27Z")
Recently one of the developers on my team reported a potential issue with an Expression Tag running a project scripting function. I have tried this on version 7.9.12 and 8.0.6, and both show the following for Quality on… --- ## [Transferring a licensed copy of Ignition from one OS to another?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transferring-a-licensed-copy-of-ignition-from-one-os-to-another/31162)
**Author:** [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transferring-a-licensed-copy-of-ignition-from-one-os-to-another/31162 "2020-01-08T20:35:48Z")
A customer of ours is using Ignition 7.9.9 on a Windows 08 Server OS. The support for that is about to be up and so they want to upgrade the OS. We want to bring the Ignition gateway over to the new OS which may or may… --- ## [System.opc.write Not Working...for only booleans](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opc-write-not-working-for-only-booleans/31157)
**Author:** [@jordan.richardson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jordan.richardson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-opc-write-not-working-for-only-booleans/31157 "2020-01-08T19:20:02Z")
Ignition Gateway: 7.9.13 I am attempting to do something which I believed to be simple, a direct OPC write to a boolean value in an AB PLC. When that failed, I created a Int tag and a String tag in the PLC to test if it… --- ## [High memory usage after upgrade](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/high-memory-usage-after-upgrade/31056)
**Author:** [@jordan.richardson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jordan.richardson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/high-memory-usage-after-upgrade/31056 "2020-01-08T18:53:55Z")
Our memory usage has increased to the point of causing clock drift events/gateway restarts after upgrading from 7.8.5 to 7.9.13. I have done a some trimming by uninstalling modules that were in a trial version, and other… --- ## [Double Data logging?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/double-data-logging/22021)
**Author:** [@dion.botha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dion.botha)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/double-data-logging/22021 "2020-01-08T18:29:42Z")
Hi guys, In our AB PLC, I have setup a counter to increment every time a particular event happens. In an Ignition project, I have setup a historical transaction group to log the counter on change as well as the serial n… --- ## [Perspective (leaflet)map scripting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-leaflet-map-scripting/26434)
**Author:** [@fedde](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fedde)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-leaflet-map-scripting/26434 "2020-01-08T17:20:14Z")
I have a lot of trouble finding information about scripting in the perspective map, for instance I want to create markers onMapClick. If I manually create empty markers I can change the properties like name, lat and lng … --- ## [Collision at system.util.initialize?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/collision-at-system-util-initialize/31154)
**Author:** [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/collision-at-system-util-initialize/31154 "2020-01-08T17:17:02Z")
I’m porting a 7.9.1 vision project over to 8.0.6 and taking the opportunity to fix all the errors that appear in my log view under diagnostics. I see this error but I can’t make sense of what the issue is or where I wou… --- ## [Configuring Siemens adressing is failing in Ignition 8.0.6?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configuring-siemens-adressing-is-failing-in-ignition-8-0-6/31151)
**Author:** [@patricia.mendez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/patricia.mendez)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/configuring-siemens-adressing-is-failing-in-ignition-8-0-6/31151 "2020-01-08T17:16:44Z")
Dear all, I am testing Ignition 8.0.6 in a Linux Centos7 machi9ne. I have connected to a siemens LPC1500 successfully and now I am trying to manually specify each address following the documentation: https://docs.induc… --- ## [\[Bug-12309, 11959\]Vision Buttons lack of contrast between Enabled & Disabled states](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12309-11959-vision-buttons-lack-of-contrast-between-enabled-disabled-states/21849)
**Author:** [@DaveD24](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DaveD24)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-12309-11959-vision-buttons-lack-of-contrast-between-enabled-disabled-states/21849 "2020-01-08T17:13:47Z")
This applies mainly to the two state toggle button and multi-state button, see below image, the enabled and disabled versions are almost indistinguishable, as Ignition is often used for mission critical monitoring/contro… --- ## [Nightly Changelogs - 2019](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-changelogs-2019/21716)
**Author:** [@awalker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/awalker)\ **Replies:** 180\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-changelogs-2019/21716 "2020-01-06T16:56:11Z")
We’ve received some requests for an easier way to track changes. We’ll now be posting the changelogs in a single thread here. --- ## [System.Security Issues](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-security-issues/31150)
**Author:** [@jbowers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jbowers)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-security-issues/31150 "2020-01-08T16:28:43Z")
Hello, I am seeing major issues with System.Security to the effect the functions appear to not work at all in main windows, but work fine in Popups. If I have a switchUser button in my main window with bad credentials,… --- ## [System Time not same as local time](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-time-not-same-as-local-time/31142)
**Author:** [@drinaldi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/drinaldi)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-time-not-same-as-local-time/31142 "2020-01-08T16:14:39Z")
having an issue where the system\[currentdatetime\] is off by 1 hour compared to local time on the server. I have restarted the gateway with no effect. server is in central time, but when running the project all my times… --- ## [Expression right operand is null?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-right-operand-is-null/31143)
**Author:** [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-right-operand-is-null/31143 "2020-01-08T16:14:01Z")
I imported a project from Vision 7.9 to vision 8.0. I have a text field with the current non-editable background expression - if({Root Container.CheckBox\_Manual.selected}, "241,241,241", if({Root Container.NTF\_Remaini… --- ## [Gateway Backup Metadata](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-backup-metadata/31141)
**Author:** [@tim.schultz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tim.schultz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-backup-metadata/31141 "2020-01-08T16:13:11Z")
Is there a way to tell who made a gateway backup with only the backup file itself? I’m going through some kind of forensic activity, as we had an incident at a plant where a primary gateway reverted from version 7.8.4 t… --- ## [Unable to add gateway in Designer on Mac](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-add-gateway-in-designer-on-mac/31124)
**Author:** [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-add-gateway-in-designer-on-mac/31124 "2020-01-08T16:01:57Z")
I just installed Ignition 8.0.7 on a MacBook running Mojave 10.14.6. The attached image shows the gateway running on the Designer launcher, but I am unable to add the gateway to Designer because the button is greyed out… --- ## [Perspective DOM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dom/31147)
**Author:** [@RadicalRumin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/RadicalRumin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dom/31147 "2020-01-08T15:21:38Z")
I was wondering if it’s somehow possible to interact with the DOM in perspective. Via script maybe or some other way. If anyone has any ideas I’d like to hear them. --- ## [Copy tag value to another tag on third tag change](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copy-tag-value-to-another-tag-on-third-tag-change/22155)
**Author:** [@damzagar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/damzagar)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copy-tag-value-to-another-tag-on-third-tag-change/22155 "2020-01-08T14:24:46Z")
I’ve tried with system.tag.write(“tag 1”, “tag 2”) and it doesn’t work. Tried scripting (tag change - value change, global script on tag change)… can’t get it to work… Both tags are Integers, trying to copy the value fr… --- ## [Plain Old Telephone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plain-old-telephone/31126)
**Author:** [@athayer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/athayer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plain-old-telephone/31126 "2020-01-08T12:33:21Z")
Is it possible to use an old style (2) wire phone system for sending alarms? I really want to send messages to an answering service which would handle the call tree. --- ## [Communication between Gateway Jython Script and External Python Script](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/communication-between-gateway-jython-script-and-external-python-script/31139)
**Author:** [@emilien.legrand](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/emilien.legrand)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/communication-between-gateway-jython-script-and-external-python-script/31139 "2020-01-08T12:18:41Z")
Hello, I understand scripting in ignition is based on Jython and therefore such library like SciPy, NumPy and Pandas cannot be imported. As a workaround, is there a way to perform the following from a Jython ‘Web Dev’ … --- ## [Identify Special Characters in Text Feild](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/identify-special-characters-in-text-feild/30932)
**Author:** [@sunil.sitro](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sunil.sitro)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/identify-special-characters-in-text-feild/30932 "2020-01-08T09:53:39Z")
Hello, Is there any way to identify Special characters entered in the text field, and same thing i need to display the message saying “Special Characters are not Allowed”. Thanks, Sunil --- ## [Align Items Center Prop and Overlay Opt-out 🐛?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/align-items-center-prop-and-overlay-opt-out/31121)
**Author:** [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/align-items-center-prop-and-overlay-opt-out/31121 "2020-01-07T23:35:46Z")
Through embedded views. If an overlay is active on a component it defaults to align left or the text does or something? The container is set to center. I went in and just opted out of the overlay on the component in the … --- ## [To retain text field size in template](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/to-retain-text-field-size-in-template/31120)
**Author:** [@chaoliang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaoliang)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/to-retain-text-field-size-in-template/31120 "2020-01-07T22:56:52Z")
Hi I was searching the forum about the solution to the following design requirement but couldn’t find any positive solution. As seen the in the following template, there’s string at the left as description, a text box i… --- ## [Cannot set focus/cursor in Text Field on window open](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-set-focus-cursor-in-text-field-on-window-open/23454)
**Author:** [@Jeremy.Brooks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeremy.Brooks)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-set-focus-cursor-in-text-field-on-window-open/23454 "2020-01-07T20:53:59Z")
I’m building an application in Ignition that requires operators to scan their badge bar codes in to confirm ID. The issue I’m having is that in order to prevent an operator from typing in a code, as opposed to scanning… --- ## [\[Bug - FB15746\] MySQL Collation bug in Tree Component](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-fb15746-mysql-collation-bug-in-tree-component/31090)
**Author:** [@victor1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victor1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-fb15746-mysql-collation-bug-in-tree-component/31090 "2020-01-07T18:51:30Z")
Hello! I have a collation bug when using the tree component. The data came from a MySQL database with UTF8 Collation configured. When displayed in the Tree component this error occour but when using the Database Query… --- ## [Project heavily based on templates gets often stuck](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-heavily-based-on-templates-gets-often-stuck/31041)
**Author:** [@szcz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/szcz)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-heavily-based-on-templates-gets-often-stuck/31041 "2020-01-07T16:21:30Z")
Hello all, Ignition 7.9.4 user here running on 2012R2 and MSSQL 2016 R2 CU 11. I came upon interesting issue I cannot fix myself. I wanted to create a project for users to push buttons when something happens. There are … --- ## [Ignition external communication affected by local language environment](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-external-communication-affected-by-local-language-environment/30990)
**Author:** [@781646229](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/781646229)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-external-communication-affected-by-local-language-environment/30990 "2020-01-07T16:16:04Z")
In Ignition, we often encounter communication with external systems. Here is an example of sending WeChat to API in 7.9.9 version. Here, msg contains Chinese characters. I can receive wechat messages normally, but th… --- ## [Adding popup menus to custom vision component](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-popup-menus-to-custom-vision-component/31112)
**Author:** [@loay.khartabil](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/loay.khartabil)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-popup-menus-to-custom-vision-component/31112 "2020-01-07T16:06:49Z")
I am trying to add a popup menu to a vision component (java bean component) but have not able able to do. My questions are: (1) is this first possible and if yes how. (2) if it is not possible, is there a way to progr… --- ## [How make fallback for CSS3 property in perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-make-fallback-for-css3-property-in-perspective/31001)
**Author:** [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-make-fallback-for-css3-property-in-perspective/31001 "2020-01-07T15:55:17Z")
Hi As some css3 feature is not support for some browser, we need some fallback mechanism. In web development this done by simple writing a same property with different value. For example color transparency doesn’t su… [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md?page=1419) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/latest.md?page=1421)