# Noob needs help creating a simple Bar Chart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, database, vision\
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962 "2025-04-10T17:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Neil\_Gehrke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@Neil\_Gehrke](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Neil_Gehrke)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962/1 "2025-04-10T17:15:39Z")

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I need to create a simple bar chart to display flow meter totalizer tag data in 5 minute increments with a selectable date range. I've been searching for instruction on how to do this. I am unfamiliar with how to create a data set also.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962/2 "2025-04-10T17:37:46Z")

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How much of the free training have you done?

> **[Inductive University Course List - Learn Ignition Free](https://inductiveuniversity.com/courses/ignition/ignition-overview/8.1)**
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> Learn the fundamentals and advanced features of Ignition while earning your IU credential

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**Author:** ![Neil\_Gehrke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@Neil\_Gehrke](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Neil_Gehrke)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962/3 "2025-04-10T19:17:52Z")

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I've done quite a bit already, and ongoing. There's really not much available for either of these, that explains from scratch how to create and setup.

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_CRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Felipe\_CRM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Felipe_CRM)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/noob-needs-help-creating-a-simple-bar-chart/104962/4 "2025-04-10T20:27:39Z")

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It won't go into step by step details, but once you have the basic ideas of how to navigate, how bindings work, and what you can edit, there's a lot of info in the manual.

Going to drop a few links here that may help you get started, and if you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.

> **[Vision - Bar Chart | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/vision-components/charts/bar-chart)**
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> The Bar Chart is a very easy-to-use chart that provides a familiar bar representation of any numeric values.

> **[Vision - Date Range | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/vision-components/calendars/date-range)**
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> The date range component provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop way to select a contiguous range of time.

> **[Tag Historian Binding Video at Inductive University](https://inductiveuniversity.com/videos/tag-historian-binding/8.1)**
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> The Tag historian binding type (which is only available for Dataset type properties), runs a query against the Tag history system.

> **[Tag History Bindings in Vision | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/vision/binding-types-in-vision/tag-history-bindings-in-vision)**
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> Binding Properties to the Tag Historian

If you want to mess with dataset properties manually for testing purposes:

> **[Working with Vision Components | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/vision/working-with-vision-components#dataset-editor)**
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> The Vision Module comes with a host of built-in components that you can select from for use in your project. One thing that you'll find when working with components is there are a few different ways to manipulate and layout components on a window...