# \[FEATURE\] Increase usability of the Perspective Power Chart component

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-increase-usability-of-the-perspective-power-chart-component/51474>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-increase-usability-of-the-perspective-power-chart-component/51474 "2021-09-29T22:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-increase-usability-of-the-perspective-power-chart-component/51474/65 "2023-08-10T00:28:15Z")

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Demos of (sure, this product looks a little dated, but it's super user friendly!):

- realtime auto-scroll and update data enable/disable toggle (Power Chart's current "realtime" mode)
- drag chart to scroll time (Power Chart's current "historic" mode)
- "Move to now" button to keep the time window but move the end date to “now” (and enable realtime updating of the trend) (Power Chart: change from "historic" mode to "realtime" mode)
- span selection with common spans like 1 week, 1 day, etc.
- start/end datetime changing relating to span lock:
  - with span lock enabled, changing start or end will update the other according to the span
  - with spanlock disabled, span changes according to new datetimes selected.

- y-axis scaling via click and drag, as well as via dialogue numeric inputs.
- zoom window

Video demonstrating these points below:

- x-axis / time axis scaling via click and drag

Video demonstrating this point below:

- time axis _always_ displays full datetime (not things like ":03" which is just extremely confusing and looks horrible)
- time axis major ticks display logical datetimes, not random numbers created from a simple division of span/num ticks like 3:04, 3:26, 3:44, 4:06....

Video demonstrating these points below:

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