# Easy Chart Line / Line with gaps not rendering, dots render fine

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-line-line-with-gaps-not-rendering-dots-render-fine/74102>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [May 24, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-line-line-with-gaps-not-rendering-dots-render-fine/74102 "2023-05-24T01:52:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-line-line-with-gaps-not-rendering-dots-render-fine/74102/1 "2023-05-24T01:52:26Z")

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For some reason my Easy Charts are no longer rendering "Line" pens, although they render "Dot" pens just fine. No amount of fiddling seems to repair the behavior. Am I missing something here?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-line-line-with-gaps-not-rendering-dots-render-fine/74102/2 "2023-05-24T11:45:40Z")

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Are there drop-outs in your data? (Nulls break the line.)

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**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-line-line-with-gaps-not-rendering-dots-render-fine/74102/3 "2023-05-24T22:41:05Z")

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Checking down that train of thought was fruitful! It turns out that a duplicate project was loading null lines into the same table. Thats a useful one to have caught -- it was duplicating the 1 second timer for the same variables, but was not connected to the actual data sources. I have disabled all the transaction groups in the other project (which wasn't even loaded into a designer!), and now the lines draw. Good to know that they will keep doing that even when not apparently active.

An "ignore null" would be a very nice thing to have in the easy chart. Running diagnostics on the pen did not yield anything useful, all greens.

Thanks for the help!