# Remote Tag History Access **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [October 30, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951 "2024-10-30T12:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/2 "2024-10-30T13:08:58Z")
Do you have a database connection to the DB holding that remote gateway's history? If so, you don't need an RTP at all, just construct history tag paths using the local DB connection, and the remote gateway's name and tag provider name as the parts of the "driver" term. See this topic and linked topics: > [@Tag History Indirect Binding](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-indirect-binding/96810): > > Not really needing help, but looking for validation on something. When binding tag history to a dataset, I dragged some tags over from the historical tags. As such, the tag paths were structured as: [DB\_Connection/GatewayName:Tag\_Provider]Tag\_Folder\_Path/Tag I needed to set this up for indirection. Since most of my indirects use a Tag\_Folder\_Path variable of the form [Tag\_Provider]Tag\_Folder\_Path, I just plugged this as a placeholder with intent to reformat to the full path later. However, th… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951)._