# Tag History Indirect Binding **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** vision\ **Created:** [October 4, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-indirect-binding/96810 "2024-10-04T07:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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 5, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-indirect-binding/96810/4 "2024-10-05T14:54:40Z")
> [@PFollansbee](#): > > how do you know this? Experience. History paths are poorly documented. Some related topics: > [@Is the extended tag path format for history queries documented?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-the-extended-tag-path-format-for-history-queries-documented/96730): > > I was doing some hackish things with a history DB, and landed in a situation where I could no longer see the history for one specific tag using system.tag.queryTagHistory. Just to make sure I wasn't fumbling a parameter, I tried a history binding in Perspective for the same tag and it worked. Then I noticed that the designer UI had built the tag path in a form I've never seen documented. I tried that path with queryTagHistory and it got data. I was using a more simple: my\_hist = system.tag.qu… > [@Historian Tag Path Syntax Format](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/historian-tag-path-syntax-format/94617): > > I am laying out some foundational work. I came across two valid syntax of Historian Tag Path: short version: DB\_GW\_A01/gw\_maker:default]wm01 long version: histprov:DB\_GW\_A01:/drv:gw\_maker:default:/tag:wm01 From your experience. Which one is more acceptable? > [@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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-indirect-binding/96810)._