# Missing OPC HDA Tag History in Perspective

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544 "2020-06-11T10:02:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![David.Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@David.Napier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David.Napier)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/1 "2020-06-11T10:02:32Z")

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Hi Everyone  
I have a OPC HDA Tag Historian Provider connected to OSI PI  
In vision i can browse to all the tags under the Tag History binding.  
But in perspective the browse tags only shows my configured realtime tags.  
Is there a similar functionality in perspective when using a OPC HDA tag history provider?

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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:** [June 11, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/2 "2020-06-11T15:32:46Z")

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There’s no historical browse functionality built into Perspective (yet, it’s on the shortlist) but you can copy and paste a ‘fully qualified’ path from Vision into Perspective and it should work.

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**Author:** ![David.Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@David.Napier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David.Napier)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/3 "2020-06-15T03:00:07Z")

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Thanks for the reply.  
I couldn’t get it to work with a fully qualified path in the tag history tab.  
I ended up using a system.tag.queryTagHistory expression with the full qualified path and that did the trick.

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**Author:** ![john.glynn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/john.glynn/32/17348_2.png) [@john.glynn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/john.glynn)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/4 "2020-06-15T22:35:06Z")

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Running into this same problem, trying to make a Time Series Chart using historical tags coming though HDA. I’ve tried copying and pasting the fully qualified tag path under Binding Type \> Tag History \> Select Tags \> Expression and no dice.

I’ve also tried using system.tag.queryTagHistory under Binding Type \> Expression but that appears to me to pull a dataset when it is expecting an array.

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**Author:** ![David.Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@David.Napier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David.Napier)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/5 "2020-06-16T07:51:49Z")

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Hi John,  
You can bind a dataset to the series, 0, data field and it works.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/e/ec2043d8ec41f789b48d95e781c042939e69b68f.png)

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**Author:** ![john.glynn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/john.glynn/32/17348_2.png) [@john.glynn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/john.glynn)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/6 "2020-06-16T15:07:41Z")

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I guess now I am confused about how you used system.tag.queryTagHistory which is a scripting function to work as an expression function. In the scripting console I can use system.tag.queryTagHistory to get the dataset I want to display on the chart but when I get to the chart\> series\>binding type\> expression it won’t work as it is a scripting function.

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**Author:** ![David.Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@David.Napier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David.Napier)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/7 "2020-06-17T00:32:10Z")

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Try using a script transformation.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/6/66fe62aaafe19c3e03953390538255fe5e807339.png)

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**Author:** ![Ethan.Hinds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Ethan.Hinds](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ethan.Hinds)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/8 "2020-09-15T18:24:44Z")

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Does the new 8.1 release address this?

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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:** [September 15, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-opc-hda-tag-history-in-perspective/35544/9 "2020-09-15T18:26:04Z")

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No, not yet.