# Custom Images Changing State in Multistate Indicator

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-images-changing-state-in-multistate-indicator/14734>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 10, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-images-changing-state-in-multistate-indicator/14734 "2017-07-10T09:04:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@greg1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-images-changing-state-in-multistate-indicator/14734/1 "2017-07-10T09:04:53Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to import custom images into ignition and change between images in a Multistate Indicator type scenario?  
I usually do this within the HMI software I use and I find it looks quite cool and is an easy way to show different states without too much text on the screen.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-images-changing-state-in-multistate-indicator/14734/2 "2017-07-10T10:57:01Z")

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If you use the regular multistate component, you can have a selected and an unselected image per button.

If you want to use custom components in a template to make your own multistate selector, you can bind the image path of most components to whatever you want: a tag, gui property, …  
And you can use expression functions to do the mapping from a value to a correct path.  
Then it’s just a matter of scripting the multi state button so it keeps a state per template instance.

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**Author:** ![greg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@greg1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-images-changing-state-in-multistate-indicator/14734/3 "2017-07-10T20:22:33Z")

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Cool thanks for that.