# Manual Data Input

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/manual-data-input/76809>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 24, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/manual-data-input/76809 "2023-07-24T19:18:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Randolph\_Sewell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@Randolph\_Sewell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Randolph_Sewell)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/manual-data-input/76809/1 "2023-07-24T19:18:35Z")

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I've been tasked with creating a daily manual input screen. The current issue is I can't figure out how to just use tags and the history on them because sometimes they might not need to enter a value and so it shouldn't be logging it in the history unless there's a change. Is there a way to make tags history only log a value when the value changes as opposed to it just taking samples periodically? I had a working version just using tables but the problem is I would need to do table splitting due to the volume of manual input and I want an easier more maintainable solution. Thanks in advance for any replys.

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**Author:** ![bmeyers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmeyers/32/37453_2.png) [@bmeyers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmeyers)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/manual-data-input/76809/2 "2023-07-24T20:02:59Z")

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In the tag editor set History Enabled to _true_ and Sample Mode to _On Change_.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/b/8b06fc791b06bdce8a446eeeeb117d756c84d106.png)