# Issue with Power Chart (Ignition Perspective) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective, ignition81\ **Created:** [July 30, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162 "2025-07-30T18:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anguyen09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@anguyen09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anguyen09)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/1 "2025-07-30T18:04:59Z")
**Hello everyone, I am trying to bind the expression tags with a power chart but it is not displaying for some reasons. Please help me with this. The goal is to display On is green, Off is red.** ![pic37](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/8/28c8697ab4d2e3e3fe17cadc282c2052264c4e12.png) ![pic34](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/5/052316d6d5d67b7be33855274e6eb4186dcadea6.png) ![pic35](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/1/b10d449cb26903379bf3f71dca30324cba8c5650.png) ---
**Author:** ![BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BRYAN_MOBLEY)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/2 "2025-07-30T18:58:30Z")
What is your historical provider path for the historical data for those tags? For my pre-made power charts my data\source for the pens points to a historical provider, not the tag path. ---
**Author:** ![anguyen09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@anguyen09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anguyen09)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/3 "2025-07-30T19:24:39Z")
1. **Historical Provider Path:** My history provider is named `Sample_SQLite_Database`, and it's set as the history provider for the 'h3\_on' and 'h3\_off' tags (confirmed in their Tag Editor \> History section). The database connection `Sample_SQLite_Database` is status 'Connected' in the Gateway. The JDBC Connect URL for this provider is `jdbc:sqlite:${data}/local/quickstart/samplequickstart.db`. 2. **Pen Source Binding:** I am using the tag path for the pens: - `path: "[default]H3_UptimeDowntime/h3_on"` - `tagProvider: "default"` - `historyProvider: "Sample_SQLite_Database"` Should I use the history provider to replace the tag path? ---
**Author:** ![BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BRYAN_MOBLEY)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/4 "2025-07-30T19:32:17Z")
Yes. To make it easy just put your deisgner in live mode with theplay button, add your tags using the browser and then go out of live mode. Should have the path in there after that. ---
**Author:** ![Nol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Nol](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nol)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/5 "2025-07-30T19:37:15Z")
Have you tried adding a point via the browse tags portion of the power chart? Assuming the tag is working in the historian then it's likely your tag path isn't correct. It should look something along these lines: histprov:{nameDatabase}:/drv:{nameGateway}:{nameProvider}:/tag:folder1/folder2/tagname/status ---
**Author:** ![anguyen09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@anguyen09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anguyen09)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/6 "2025-07-30T20:31:39Z")
**I have tried these paths but they did not work** ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/b/1b1bf729d3362103fe62975b9e526c68c1a237e5.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/2/72e07dd50e8048891529455172287475ac611a60.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/8/7847ca10d8d56b5c18c3a858a61244521e77beee.png) ---
**Author:** ![BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BRYAN_MOBLEY)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/7 "2025-07-30T21:29:59Z")
Can you post a pic of those tags history settings? That error in the log makes me think something is off there. ---
**Author:** ![anguyen09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@anguyen09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anguyen09)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/8 "2025-07-30T22:02:17Z")
![status_on](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/8/78dafd484cb383da8a9c877a01fa9e57bbf1bfc7.png) ![status_off](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/5/a5c6119d4e06df8d4e52065605bebd88a20bbddb.png) ![OPCtag and ExpressionTags](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/f/9fd5fab3ec7980f878c1b2dc39f466312dcec311.png) ---
**Author:** ![BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BRYAN\_MOBLEY](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BRYAN_MOBLEY)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/9 "2025-07-31T11:24:33Z")
Remove the {} brackets. Try this path: histprov:Sample\_SQLite\_Database:/drv:Master\_SCADA:default:/tag:H3\_UptimeDowntime/h3\_off ---
**Author:** ![anguyen09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@anguyen09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anguyen09)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/issue-with-power-chart-ignition-perspective/109162/10 "2025-07-31T15:31:10Z")
![pic49](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/8/68fd4b5d5ec7b1037ea32e285993fdf66525d957.png) ![pic50](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/3/c34f4ec2460ef7260e50b6192c80710399ea5245.png) there are some issues with the path