# Drag and Drop Tags into Historian Table?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253 "2020-11-03T18:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![cody.abbott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cody.abbott/32/17533_2.png) [@cody.abbott](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cody.abbott)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253/1 "2020-11-03T18:31:25Z")

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I’d like to allow users to be able to drag and drop tags from a tag browse tree onto a table component; just like you can do with the easy chart. So far it seems like it works in design mode, but not runtime. Is there some way to get this done?

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253/2 "2020-11-03T19:04:45Z")

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The table component does not natively support drag and drop. You could of course add it, but that would indeed be ‘getting into the weeds’.

Perhaps a better approach would be to utilize the createPopupMenu extension function and perform what ever operation you need there.

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**Author:** ![Tim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tim/32/3361_2.png) [@Tim](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tim)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253/3 "2020-11-03T19:21:23Z")

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Not quite what you want but you could use the easy chart and table together.

> [@Ad Hoc Table](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ad-hoc-table/11077):
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> It’s easy to make an ad hoc chart in a client using a tag browse tree and an easy chart which allows users to drag/drop tags onto the chart to create a customizable trend, but it’s not so easy to create an ad hoc table. It took me a while to sort out how to do this with a table (in conjunction with an easy chart) so I figured I would post it here. Script on property change of easy chart: [code]if event.propertyName == “tagPens” or “startDate” or “endDate”: paths = event.source.parent.getComp…

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**Author:** ![cody.abbott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cody.abbott/32/17533_2.png) [@cody.abbott](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cody.abbott)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drag-and-drop-tags-into-historian-table/40253/4 "2020-11-03T19:53:19Z")

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Nice! That works great!