# ApexCharts updateSeries()

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/apexcharts-updateseries/103710>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/apexcharts-updateseries/103710 "2025-03-14T16:20:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![YF129701](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/yf129701/32/60498_2.png) [@YF129701](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/YF129701)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/apexcharts-updateseries/103710/1 "2025-03-14T16:20:21Z")

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I've been using the KyvisLabs Apex Charts for a project (since it was what the customer already had on the gateway), and things have been going pretty good with this module. The visualizations leave the default Perspective ones in the dust.

What I'm trying to implement are dynamic charts - ones that update every x minutes without reloading the entire chart. I can see from reading the [Apex Charts docs](https://apexcharts.com/docs/methods/#updateSeries) that there are two methods that are of interest to me:

```python
updateSeries()

```

and

```python
appendSeries()

```

But.... I don't know how to use them - is there a specific way to call either of those methods from Perspective? I know there are events that I can enable, then right-click on the chart -\> Configure events on. However, the `updateSeries` function seems different than that - it is what triggers the chart events (specifically, `updated`).

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/c/ccc6618939c0fd66be60c66bc02d58766d4df6ca.png)

Are those methods a moot point in Perspective, and they get replaced with Ignition bindings?

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/apexcharts-updateseries/103710/2 "2025-03-14T17:02:53Z")

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Looking at the docs for that, it is updating the actual data for the chart.  
Can you just refresh the databindings every x minutes?