# Initial parametrized values in a power chart **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [April 21, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-parametrized-values-in-a-power-chart/58705 "2022-04-21T16:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/initial-parametrized-values-in-a-power-chart/58705/7 "2024-07-25T15:58:35Z")
> [@tyler.bennett](#): > > Technically, you do not need the second (historical tag path) format anymore. Since v8.1.14 [the perspective Power Chart will accept the first format (non-historical tag paths)](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/perspective-components/perspective-chart-palette/perspective-power-chart#:~:text=tag%20paths%20are%20converted) and convert it internally. Well, except for the gotcha with remote tag providers discussed over here: > [@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/initial-parametrized-values-in-a-power-chart/58705)._