# Local Message Displays/Bars

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/local-message-displays-bars/10765>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2015, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/local-message-displays-bars/10765 "2015-11-10T10:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![JamesUalto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@JamesUalto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JamesUalto)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/local-message-displays-bars/10765/1 "2015-11-10T10:35:06Z")

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Hi,

I am wondering is there a way to create a Local Message File in Ignition. Perhaps its referred to differently. What I want to achieve is as follows:

• Have a single message bar which can display different messages depending on the state of the tag attached to it. For example, if the tags value is 55 then I can have it set up so that it will display ‘Motor Started’ and so on and so forth.

Any help or feedback is greatly appreciated.  
Thank you.

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**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:** [November 10, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/local-message-displays-bars/10765/2 "2015-11-10T13:58:28Z")

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This was discussed just yesterday on [this post](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=14708).