# Disable overlays globally on trial version

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 29, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227 "2012-03-29T21:25:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![tldpro317](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tldpro317](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tldpro317)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/1 "2012-03-29T21:25:55Z")

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I am trying to figure out how to disable the data quality overlays on the trial version of ignition, we are receiving the overlays because we imported a real project on to my notebook and because the real data is not available I keep getting the red overlays and the warning messages. Is there a way to kind of “fake” the designer into disabling the overlays entirely? Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nathan)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/2 "2012-03-29T21:57:27Z")

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Try playing with the (Expert) “Data Quality” property of components.

Check out overlays [here](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/support/usermanuals/ignition/index.html?quality_overlays.htm):

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/3 "2012-03-29T22:56:38Z")

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In the designer you can select the View -\> Disable Overlays option to hid them. This doesn’t work for the clients though.

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**Author:** ![tldpro317](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tldpro317](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tldpro317)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/4 "2012-03-30T14:05:12Z")

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Thanks you very much, the veiw -\> disable overlays worked great!

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**Author:** ![Viggy75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce7236/32.png) [@Viggy75](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Viggy75)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/5 "2012-04-03T16:35:49Z")

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Is there a way to disable all data quality overlays globally for the running clients?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/6 "2012-04-03T16:58:18Z")

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Sure can, you just need to call:`system.tag.setOverlaysEnabled(0)`

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**Author:** ![Viggy75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce7236/32.png) [@Viggy75](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Viggy75)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/7 "2012-04-03T17:00:48Z")

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Hey thanks Travis, now is this script statement executed as a startup script? Can this statement be entered as is in the startup scripting or does it need to be called from the script module?

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/8 "2012-04-03T17:20:28Z")

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You would want to put that in the client startup script.

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**Author:** ![Viggy75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce7236/32.png) [@Viggy75](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Viggy75)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/9 "2012-04-03T17:29:51Z")

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Right on, thanks Carl, I’m new to this scripting but it works great.

I assumed that I’d need to add to make it work and it did.  
import system  
system.tag.setOverlaysEnabled(0)

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-overlays-globally-on-trial-version/4227/10 "2012-04-03T18:57:32Z")

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You don’t have to import system since we do that for you already.