# Migrating from FT Historian and Vantage Point to Ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550 "2021-02-18T04:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![heshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@heshan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/heshan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/1 "2021-02-18T04:42:20Z")

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Looking ignition to replace FT Historian and vantage point client. We are looking replicate tools in Vantage point in Ignition. One that is not clear is showing multiple time frames on single trend for the same tag. below image showing example. the faint lines on the image are is the timeframe #2

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**Author:** ![brandon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@brandon1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brandon1)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/2 "2021-02-18T13:16:12Z")

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I don’t think the multiple time frame is possible at least not with the easy chart component as it stands. There is an extension function that exposes the JFree chart and maybe you can do something with it but that gets into the weeds of Java programming and I have very little experience with it.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/3 "2021-02-18T13:26:23Z")

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Certainly possible though it is in the territory of non-trivial. Can be done with either the standard chart component or the easy chart component in vision, though you would have to look into the JFreeChart component fairly heavily.

Perspective is a different beast, I suspect that with enough effort it could be done, but I don’t have enough experience to speak intelligently about it.

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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:** [February 18, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/4 "2021-02-18T13:46:04Z")

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I’ll have to think about how this could be done (in my NoteChart module). It obviously requires a transform on the timestamps per pen. I don’t think there’s any way to modify axis data processing from the available jython extension methods.

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**Author:** ![mcgheeiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mcgheeiv](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mcgheeiv)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/5 "2021-02-18T15:31:24Z")

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If the duration of each time frame is the same, the query that gets the data could offset the timestamp on the second set of data by the difference between the start time of each time frame.

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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:** [February 18, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/6 "2021-02-18T15:49:38Z")

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> [@mcgheeiv](#):
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> the query that gets the data

Tag historian pens do all their querying under the hood--no opportunity to offset.

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**Author:** ![mcgheeiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mcgheeiv](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mcgheeiv)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/7 "2021-02-18T17:00:06Z")

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details…They will always get you. I figured if it was a simple answer you would have already provided it.

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**Author:** ![heshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@heshan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/heshan)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/migrating-from-ft-historian-and-vantage-point-to-ignition/43550/8 "2021-02-24T02:48:00Z")

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Thanks guys for your input, I’m going to try a few things on my side and let you how I go