# Ad Hoc Trend feature question

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166>\
**Category:** Ignition Exchange\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 16, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166 "2022-09-16T13:13:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![zacharyw.larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacharyw.larson/32/23749_2.png) [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166/1 "2022-09-16T13:13:35Z")

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I look at a binary tag for if a machine is running.

I want to see how much time it was true/running for.  
(Trying to compare the PLC running timer to my tag running timer.)

Is that something that can be looked at and I don’t know it?

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166/2 "2022-09-16T13:43:52Z")

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Yes, use `DurationOn` tag history aggregate.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/8/3859b0cfe3c874c9bae1f068ebebab4dd50c2d40.png)

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**Author:** ![zacharyw.larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacharyw.larson/32/23749_2.png) [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166/3 "2022-09-16T14:53:41Z")

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Thanks for helping.

I meant to ask, is that available in the Ad Hoc Trend?  
Maybe my version of the Ad Hock Trend or Ignition is too old for it.

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166/4 "2022-09-16T14:56:52Z")

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Not sure since you didn’t flag vision or perspective or the version you have. Opening the exchange resource I have in Perspective has it…

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/e/5e23b8951ac17cb626016292f34ac0e3fbf0a142.png)

To clarify, this feature isn’t so much in the Ad Hoc resource, but rather in the Power Chart component.  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Perspective+-+Power+Chart](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Perspective+-+Power+Chart)

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**Author:** ![zacharyw.larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacharyw.larson/32/23749_2.png) [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-trend-feature-question/64166/5 "2022-11-09T15:21:34Z")

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Is there away to press a button, and then sort of stuff the tags and timeframe into the trend so my users can have some like 1 button predefined tends to look at if they want to?

Or would it be kind of unpredictable because of the methods contained?