# Does Historical Tag works with OPC-COM module?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/does-historical-tag-works-with-opc-com-module/9685>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/does-historical-tag-works-with-opc-com-module/9685 "2015-02-10T07:51:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![maxi0361](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@maxi0361](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/maxi0361)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/does-historical-tag-works-with-opc-com-module/9685/1 "2015-02-10T07:51:47Z")

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I am using OPC-COM module as a data source, ignition as OPC UA gateway to tunnel data. this works great. and now I want to log those data, does historical tag feature take OPC-COM as a data source?

I have tried adding a Historical Tag Providers, by giving ignition OPC DA ProgId, and I doing it correctly?  
Is there a document that teach me how to set this up?

one more question, the tag providers status shows Demo Expired, do I need to acquire a license for this feature?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/does-historical-tag-works-with-opc-com-module/9685/2 "2015-02-10T16:06:48Z")

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In this set up you don’t want to use a historical tag provider, even though that sounds like a reasonable guess.

You would just make a UA connection to the gateway doing the tunneling, subscribe to tags like normal, and then enable history on them.

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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 10, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/does-historical-tag-works-with-opc-com-module/9685/3 "2015-02-10T19:55:37Z")

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To clarify a bit more, the tag history feature (which stores data to databases) requires the SQL Bridge module. That is why the demo is expiring.

You might want to check out [this course](https://inductiveuniversity.com/course/tag-historian-in-ignition/) in the Inductive University, it might help clarify some things.

Regards,