# Historical Tag Provider Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [March 16, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/historical-tag-provider-issues/103757 "2025-03-16T19:30:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/historical-tag-provider-issues/103757/2 "2025-03-16T21:10:27Z")
When you put just a tag provider name inside the square brackets, the tag provider is asked to expand to the appropriate "driver" and history provider name. Do note that Perspective generally expects history paths to be in QualifiedPath format, while Vision generally expects history paths to be in enhanced TagPath format. (Scripted queries tolerate all three.) See these topics for more: > [@Get historical path from tagpath](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-historical-path-from-tagpath/59128): > > Is there a native scripting function or otherwise a way to supply a tagpath and get returned its historical path > [@Remote Tag Provider History Queries](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-queries/93632): > > I'm working on a couple tasks related to historians and history queries, and have encountered some behaviors of remote tag providers (RTPs) that have me stymied: There's no public way to retrieve the gateway name that a RTP is pointing at, nor any public way to retrieve the far end's real tag provider name. (Reflection has exposed com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.tags.distributed.client.RemoteTagProvider and com.inductiveautomation.metro.api.ServerId to me, and a number of private fie… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/historical-tag-provider-issues/103757)._