# Exporting Data to CSV

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-to-csv/88140>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [April 1, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-to-csv/88140 "2024-04-01T10:04:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-data-to-csv/88140/3 "2024-04-01T11:16:38Z")

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This looks related to your other question over here:

> [@Tags not storing if value is not changing](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tags-not-storing-if-value-is-not-changing/88141):
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> Hello, I am using Ignition Perspective and I have created a page where operators can enter some notes, their initials, and a datetime as shown below: [image] When the "Add" button is clicked, the values entered by the operator are written to tags via system.tag.writeBlocking The historian of the tags are enabled which stores the values into a database. I am using this page as a log and would like that every time the operator clicks the add button a new entry is stored in the database (even i…

The simple answer is that you are using the tag historian for a task for which it is not designed. Every value it stores is "solitary", with its own timestamp, and not associated with any other.

You are trying to make Ignition's historian behave like a plain database, and that won't work. Use a plain database table, to which you insert rows from your user interface.

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