# Remote Tag Provider History Settings with more than two gateways **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-settings-with-more-than-two-gateways/95541 "2024-09-04T17:25:24Z")\ **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:** [September 4, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-settings-with-more-than-two-gateways/95541/2 "2024-09-04T18:07:51Z")
You might find this discussion helpful: > [@Remote Tag Provider History Queries](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-queries/93632): > > I'm working on a couple tasks related to historians and history queries, and have encountered some behaviors of remote tag providers (RTPs) that have me stymied: There's no public way to retrieve the gateway name that a RTP is pointing at, nor any public way to retrieve the far end's real tag provider name. (Reflection has exposed com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.tags.distributed.client.RemoteTagProvider and com.inductiveautomation.metro.api.ServerId to me, and a number of private fie… FWIW, my new Exchange resource uses the reflection technique, discussed here: > [@Tag Report Utility](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-report-utility/95299): > > New resource just uploaded to the Exchange (pending review). Also available here: [https://www.automation-pros.com/TagReportUtility/](https://www.automation-pros.com/TagReportUtility/) I intend to publish at this link as well as in the Exchange going forward. Announcements will be in this topic. (: Highlights: Provides a Perspective Popup View that provides a user interface to system.tag.query() that entirely replicates the functionality of the Designer's Tag Report Tool. Provides a Perspective Embedded View that provides Time Span selectio… Fundamentally, you should be using fully-qualified historical tag paths (start with `histprov:`) rather than simple tag paths (start with `[provider]`). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-settings-with-more-than-two-gateways/95541)._