# Make system tags historical

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910 "2017-11-07T00:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910/1 "2017-11-07T00:56:00Z")

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Is it possible to make System/gateway/performance tags historical? I tried just adding history and that didn’t work, perhaps making a new memory tag for each and reading from the system tag to that and then storing history on the memory tag… any other suggestions?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910/2 "2017-11-07T00:58:54Z")

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> [@Matrix\_Engineering](#):
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> I tried just adding history and that didn't work

Could you provide a little more detail on what 'didn't work' means? Because you definitely can just store history on system tags:

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910/3 "2017-11-07T01:30:29Z")

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I have the history symbol shown as you have, then I added the historical tags to an easychart and nothing is displayed. I have other tags coming from OPC, and trending there is no issue.

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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 7, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/make-system-tags-historical/15910/4 "2017-11-07T02:25:51Z")

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It’s always worked for me, too. /-: