# Popup windows from a button event

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [February 19, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563 "2025-02-19T16:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Giuseppe_Giammo)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/1 "2025-02-19T16:07:47Z")

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i am opening up a pop-up window that contain a TimeSeriesChart. the PopUp windows has 3 parameters and works fine

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/4/14960d5b60f0d45cc990e4ebacac9a8fc8cd3b97.jpeg)

when i try to open the same windows with a button and send different parameters, the windows open up but the path parameter does not get passed or updated

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/5/d51db196709f927eb139673152c9f379d74b52bb.jpeg)

what am I missing !!

thx in advance

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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 19, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/2 "2025-02-19T16:12:29Z")

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You are missing your array subscript in the latter set of parameters.

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/3 "2025-02-19T16:18:24Z")

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Why are you passing parameters through a list of dicts ?  
Do you ever pass more than the one dict ?

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**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Giuseppe_Giammo)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/4 "2025-02-19T16:31:16Z")

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not sure what you mean... this is how the chart data is bind

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/6/e64ebb2ebe57cf6a7619b16503273f8f4ea112e9.jpeg)  
i am using the same method in other pages successfully using embedded windows object. the pop-up method is failing to update the parameters.

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**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Giuseppe_Giammo)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/5 "2025-02-19T16:32:16Z")

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yes, the idea is to pass different paths for different meters

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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 19, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/6 "2025-02-19T16:51:07Z")

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> [@Giuseppe\_Giammo](#):
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> this is how the chart data is bind

Right, that expression needs an **array** of dictionaries. Your popup action is only passing a simple dictionary, when it needs to pass a single dictionary in a list.

If you only ever want to pass a single tag to the popup, you can make a view custom property that encapsulates a single dictionary in a list, so that the history binding can use it.

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**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Giammo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Giuseppe_Giammo)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/7 "2025-02-19T17:08:51Z")

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sorry i have hard time understanding... can u point me to an example or another post with similar issues?

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/popup-windows-from-a-button-event/102563/8 "2025-02-19T18:17:51Z")

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Your view expects this:

```python
[
  {
    'aggregate': "something",
    'alias': "something",
    'path': "something"
  }
]

```

A list containing dicts.

instead of `Graph.param`, you should be using `Graph[0].param`

Though I'd probably build the list first in a custom prop, then pass just that to `graph`