# History Tag "Related Values"

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-tag-related-values/99118>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 26, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-tag-related-values/99118 "2024-11-26T13:25:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![CB123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@CB123](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CB123)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-tag-related-values/99118/1 "2024-11-26T13:25:02Z")

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For an OPC tag that is set up as an Integer type with history enabled, what is best practice if you need to log what I would call a "related value" along with that data? IE for each record for this integer tag in history, I would like to also utilize the stringvalue in that record to log a string (in this case the value of a memory tag). I was expecting to see some way to use a Custom Property, but I don't see a binding available. Utilize the Value Changed scripting in some way? I can figure it out if it has to be a parallel table of some kind, but natively in each record utilizing stringvalue makes the most sense to me. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-tag-related-values/99118/2 "2024-11-26T13:28:22Z")

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> [@CB123](#):
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> what is best practice if you need to log what I would call a "related value"

You would need to bypass the Tag History, and instead use a Transaction Group or Scripted Transaction to store all of the related data in a Wide Table format.

The Tag Historian is not capable of this task.