# Gaps Between Data points on Easy Chart - Vision

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 20, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414 "2020-01-20T14:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![alainia.spencer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@alainia.spencer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alainia.spencer)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414/1 "2020-01-20T14:56:00Z")

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Is there a way to prevent gaps between the data points on the Easy chart component in Vision? I don’t have the pens set to “line w/gaps” so that is not the issue. This happens when we loose communication to our end devices. I would like for it to just connect, not have the dash in between. Attaching screen shot.

 ![2020-01-20%2008_48_11-TrendLine](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/1/19db8c577eb2d733c7eff0ed59802a5c85230abc.png)

Is there a configuration setting I could set to connect the dashes?

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**Author:** ![b.ellison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/b.ellison/32/12684_2.png) [@b.ellison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/b.ellison)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414/2 "2020-01-20T15:44:55Z")

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Is the sample mode of the history on the tag set to On Change or Periodic? I know i have experienced this when I have had history set up to analog and took a history value periodically. When using on change, obviously the tag only takes history every time the value changes, thus interpolating in between the two. This would kind of be a work around for the problem however.

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**Author:** ![alainia.spencer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@alainia.spencer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alainia.spencer)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414/3 "2020-01-20T16:14:17Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion! The only gripe about this would be storing history into my database when I don’t really want to or need to. I was hoping there was some other setting but i’ll keep this in mind. Thanks again.

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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:** [January 20, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414/4 "2020-01-20T16:51:50Z")

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There’s a setting in the easy chart called something like maximum gap between samples. This will determine the period of time between tag samples stored when the component will consider this a gap. If you extend this out, you can remove gaps you believe are valid

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**Author:** ![alainia.spencer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@alainia.spencer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alainia.spencer)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gaps-between-data-points-on-easy-chart-vision/31414/5 "2020-01-20T17:19:39Z")

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The Ignore Bad Quality setting did the trick, thanks guys!