# Hourglass or other visual indication to indicate history retrieval in progress?

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**Category:** Ignition\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hourglass-or-other-visual-indication-to-indicate-history-retrieval-in-progress/16540 "2018-01-10T15:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hourglass-or-other-visual-indication-to-indicate-history-retrieval-in-progress/16540/1 "2018-01-10T15:10:55Z")

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Is there any simple way to indicate that the historian is updating when, for example, I change the selected date range for a table or chart? e.g., show the hourglass cursor icon or similar.

There are some five to seven-year old posts on this topic but they’re probably out of date.

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**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hourglass-or-other-visual-indication-to-indicate-history-retrieval-in-progress/16540/2 "2018-01-10T15:40:02Z")

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The chart has a property called propertiesLoading. Bind a component’s visible property to it.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hourglass-or-other-visual-indication-to-indicate-history-retrieval-in-progress/16540/3 "2018-01-10T16:12:57Z")

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That’s it. Brilliant!  
Thank you.