# Sticky notes

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 27, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788 "2010-04-27T11:49:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeterThornton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@PeterThornton](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PeterThornton)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788/1 "2010-04-27T11:49:14Z")

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Is it possible to allow users to enter text messages that can then be displayed at arbitary locations on a mimic.  
For example, if I put a motor into hand, I could put a “post-it” note on the mimic to say that the pump is in hand because it is intermittently overheating.  
This “post-it” would then be visible to other users viewing the mimic.  
Is there any built-in functionality that would achieve this? If not, where would I begin to implement something like this?

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788/2 "2010-04-27T15:15:04Z")

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im not sure what you mean by “mimic”, but you could create a db tag, with string as the datatype. then use a text field or multi line text field binded to the db tags value. it worked for me just now when I tried it.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788/3 "2010-04-30T21:52:22Z")

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Yes it would be easy to build this yourself with a textarea that could become visible on demand for each mimic (mimic is the name for a live display graphic in certain industries).

It could be driven by a DB-tag of type String, or you could build a simple table that mapped machine IDs to current notes.

Or you could use the Comments Panel component (under the “Tables” tab), which would allow for a more robust way of accommodating this.

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**Author:** ![PeterThornton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@PeterThornton](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PeterThornton)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sticky-notes/1788/4 "2010-05-10T15:36:27Z")

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Thanks Carl,

I had a look at the “Comments Panel” and I think that will do exactly what I want.

Peter