# Email Power Chart Trends

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 22, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044 "2023-05-22T20:14:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alec/32/41994_2.png) [@alec](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alec)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044/1 "2023-05-22T20:14:50Z")

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Is it possible to email power chart trends via scripting?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/c/fc22346e9abc80e04d8adfb705fd9e692c0a0827.png)

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**Author:** ![franklepkowski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/franklepkowski/32/4808_2.png) [@franklepkowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/franklepkowski)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044/2 "2023-05-22T20:21:32Z")

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Hello,

Are you looking to email the data in the chart or a picture of the chart itself? If it’s the data, that could be accomplished fairly easily with a script.

Thanks,

Frank

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**Author:** ![alec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alec/32/41994_2.png) [@alec](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alec)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044/3 "2023-05-22T20:25:31Z")

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I was looking for an image of the chart itself, I saw previous post where it was able to be done in Vision but have not seen a way to do it in Perspective.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-power-chart-trends/74044/4 "2023-05-22T20:38:19Z")

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In 8.1.28 you can print the contents of a chart, and you could use the browser's or OS's embedded print to PDF driver:

> [@Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2023](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/53):
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> Nightly Changelog: 8.1.28-SNAPSHOT-b20230502 Swing Vision IGN-7545: NPE when clicking "Find" button in a Find/Replace context search menu Fixed an issue where find/replace of components with no extension functions populated would throw a null pointer exception. Perspective Perspective IGN-2967: Print contents of component, view, and page Added new 'Request Print' component action and new 'requestPrint' script callable component method. Choose to print the page, the view, or the componen…

There's no way to get that rendered image to the backend yet to send it in a custom email via scripting, though.