# Easy chart pens configuration question

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 22, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563 "2013-05-22T21:44:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jeffhoagland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jeffhoagland](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jeffhoagland)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563/1 "2013-05-22T21:44:12Z")

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Is there any documentation anywhere that shows some kind of sample of the expected configuration of the different cells in the Pens datasets (DBPens, SQLTag Pens). I would like to use this means to bring in data from my MSSQL database, but I haven’t been able to figure out what all the different cells in each column do. some of them are obvious I get, but it seems that simply adding the basic information to some isn’t quite enough, and I’m struggling to understand which cells need what for each pen/row

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**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:** [May 23, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563/2 "2013-05-23T21:11:01Z")

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Well, to answer your direct question: no, this doesn’t exist as documentation anywhere, unfortunately. The columns are meant to be as self-describing as possible.

Is there something specific you need cleared up?

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**Author:** ![matsons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@matsons](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/matsons)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563/3 "2013-06-18T17:50:58Z")

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If you’re still looking for information on the pen configuration, I suggest you download and install the “Click to Graph” Extra Here: [http://www.inductiveautomation.com/?wicket:interface=:2:downloadsection:1:downloads:8:downloadfrag:link::ILinkListener::](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/?wicket:interface=:2:downloadsection:1:downloads:8:downloadfrag:link::ILinkListener::)

There is quite a bit of code in there that will at least give examples of how to populate the pen and axis datasets.

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**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:** [June 19, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pens-configuration-question/6563/4 "2013-06-19T16:11:09Z")

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Thanks matsons, that’s a good suggestion.