# Power Chart with database data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 5, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323 "2023-05-05T10:35:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/76d3ee/32.png) [@PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PRASHANTH_KAKKIRALA)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/1 "2023-05-05T10:35:31Z")

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How to configure the Power chart in perspective to browse the database tables instead of tag historian tags?

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**Author:** ![PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/76d3ee/32.png) [@PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PRASHANTH_KAKKIRALA)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/2 "2023-05-05T10:59:06Z")

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Steps I followed-  
1.Create a new tag history provider and map it into start path.  
2.update the 'tagBrowserStartPath' of Power chart

Example  
histprov:ABC:/drv:Ignition-gateway-virtual-machine:Sample\_Tags:/

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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:** [May 5, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/3 "2023-05-05T11:56:48Z")

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What do you mean ? What tables ?  
Tags with history enabled don't store historized data themselves, it's stored in a database. That's what the power chart uses.

Do you mean you want to use the power chart to display something unrelated to the historian ?

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**Author:** ![PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/76d3ee/32.png) [@PRASHANTH\_KAKKIRALA](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PRASHANTH_KAKKIRALA)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/4 "2023-05-05T12:31:55Z")

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Yes. I wanted to display data from a database table (not related to tags) using power chart

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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:** [May 5, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/5 "2023-05-05T13:18:31Z")

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Use a time series chart if you want to display time series, or an XY chart otherwise.  
Powerchart was not made for this, as noted in the docs:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/f/5f77021b4effe3510eab55b12e8087e974d3c6cb.png)

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**Author:** ![djs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@djs](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/djs)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-with-database-data/73323/6 "2023-05-05T13:26:25Z")

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I personally have not messed with this, but this might be another option:

> [@Perspective Charting, Multiple Zones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-charting-multiple-zones/73213/2):
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> > [@Perspective Charting, Multiple Zones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-charting-multiple-zones/73213/1):
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> > The data will originate from SQL, not a tag historian. Im not sure if the powerchart will be able to work in this case.
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> Use the [DB Table Historian Provider](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/DB+Table+Historian+Provider) for this case.