# Display path for history tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-path-for-history-tags/2644>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 16, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-path-for-history-tags/2644 "2011-02-16T18:39:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-path-for-history-tags/2644/1 "2011-02-16T18:39:12Z")

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The tags in the history database lose all their metadata (as well as their capitialization 👿 )  
I’d like to see a display path name stored with the tag. Alerts have this concept. I have forced the tag tooltip into this role in the past.

It would be great if their were a global display name (with no restrictions on charactersets ie:i18n ) that was saved in the history as well as being available for display in screen, graphs, alerts, etc

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-path-for-history-tags/2644/2 "2011-02-16T20:10:12Z")

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Yes, this has been requested a few times. The capitalization issue really gets to people 😆

Adding additional information to the table would really be a problem, but we would have to define how it made it’s way through the system. A simple “Display Name” field, which defaulted to the tag name, might be the easiest- it would just be used as the title of the column in the result set. This would solve another outstanding problem with using SQLTags history with the reporting plugin.

Regards,