# Refresh Data Across All Sessions

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-data-across-all-sessions/92976 "2024-07-09T20:04:52Z")\
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> [@Colin\_Quinn](#):
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> with a message handler on any component that needs to listen for that `refreshData` message where that component can refresh itself?

This, but you need an intermediate session message handler to catch the outgoing from system. **util**.sendMessage and broadcast it again with system. **perspective**.sendMessage. More on that here:

> [@Session Event Handlers on inheritable projects](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/session-event-handlers-on-inheritable-projects/91140/5):
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> Note that there's two different 'messaging' systems at play, which causes lots of confusion, unfortunately. system.util.sendMessage is the older, not-Perspective-specific, bus that was 'overloaded' to allow messaging to entire Perspective sessions. The handlers for these messages are defined in 'Session Events', and as Phil noted - not generally suitable for participation in the project inheritance scheme currently; all your handlers, of any type, are all managed by a single project resource, …

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