# Suppress Write Pending overlay?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [December 11, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983 "2023-12-11T16:03:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983/1 "2023-12-11T16:03:41Z")

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In Perspective, is there anyway to suppress the [Pending Overlay](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Quality+Codes+and+Overlays#QualityCodesandOverlays-PerspectiveComponentOverlays):

> - The Pending overlay is displayed for Good quality, subcode 2 only

![Screen Shot 2023-12-11 at 8.57.34 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/7/375302a8767f5d7973f73cee89034b5218eb60e4.png)

I don't want to suppress the other overlays, only this one that keeps telling me "yes, I'm working and everything is going along tickety-boo, so you can ignore this specific overlay for now".

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**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:** [December 11, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983/2 "2023-12-11T16:05:23Z")

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The simplest solution is to use a tag group that is set to optimistic writes for the tags where this matters.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983/3 "2023-12-11T16:06:08Z")

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> "yes, I'm working and everything is going along tickety-boo, so you can ignore this specific overlay for now".

Not quite. More like, "Yes, I'm working on it and I've sent off the update and I'm displaying the value I've sent and, no, I haven't confirmed it yet so you can believe it or not but I'll let you know in a while if I don't get a confirmation!"

> [@Pending Status Showing for a few seconds when a button is clicked](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pending-status-showing-for-a-few-seconds-when-a-button-is-clicked/80830):
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> Is there anyway of not showing the 'Pending Status' when a button is clicked in Perspective ? I've tried checking the Overlay Opt Out box in the binding and nothing changed. I'm using an OPC UA connection to a Siemens S71500 PLC

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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/suppress-write-pending-overlay/82983/4 "2023-12-11T16:09:56Z")

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> [@Transistor](#):
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> Not quite. More like, "Yes, I'm working on it and I've sent off the update and I'm displaying the value I've sent and, no, I haven't confirmed it yet so you can believe it or not but I'll let you know in a while if I don't get a confirmation!"

But that is expected behavior. In this particular application, I don't want to be continually told that expected behavior is .. expected. 😉