# Easy Chart Pen Enable/Disable **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289 "2011-09-16T02:26:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joseph\_Mendonca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Joseph\_Mendonca](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joseph_Mendonca)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/1 "2011-09-16T02:26:18Z")
I have an Easy Chart with approximately 700 pens where some of the pen names (gpm, status, hoa) are the same but in different groups. The problem is that when I enable one pen in a specific group all the other pens with the same name in other groups get enabled. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/2 "2011-09-16T14:58:47Z")
How are you enabling/disabling the pens? ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_Mendonca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Joseph\_Mendonca](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joseph_Mendonca)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/3 "2011-09-16T16:08:35Z")
The pens are enabled/disabled from the Easy Chart. Initially the pens were loaded from the Easy Chart. It was then exported to a csv from the clipboard and the groups names were then added and imported back into the dataset. Had to remove the (1) (2) appended to the tag names because of the duplicates. ---
**Author:** ![peadair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@peadair](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peadair)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/4 "2011-09-20T14:44:03Z")
I had this same problem where i had a number of pens with the same name just in different groups and when i enabled one they would all enable and when i disabled one they all disabled, what i found was that each pen name did require to be different even though they were in different groups. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/5 "2011-09-20T14:59:37Z")
We will add a ticket to get this fixed. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/6 "2011-09-24T00:02:54Z")
This has been resolved for 7.3. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/7 "2011-10-03T23:06:07Z")
Some thing similar but different. My pens are added on the fly via code. If I add a number (more then one) of pens with the same name but different paths, only one is shown. This is in 7.2.8 and I think 7.2.6 (maybe 7.2.5) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/8 "2011-10-04T14:00:37Z")
This is another symptom of the same issue I think - charts in 7.3 should work correctly with tags that have the same name as long as they are in different groups. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/9 "2011-10-04T20:08:21Z")
Thanks Carl. I will continue to test this. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/10 "2011-10-07T19:05:19Z")
This is fixed in 7.3.0 ---
**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:** [October 19, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/11 "2011-10-19T23:49:55Z")
For anyone interested, I’ve backported this fix to a special release of the Vision module, version 4.2.8. You can [download it here](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/software/Vision_4_2_8/Vision-module.modl), let me know if you have any problems with it. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-enable-disable/3289/12 "2011-10-21T17:12:55Z")
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