# TimeSeriesChart not showing lines in chart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [April 6, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093 "2022-04-06T09:28:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![mandar\_ganoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mandar\_ganoo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mandar_ganoo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093/1 "2022-04-06T09:28:07Z")

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We are using Ignition 8.1.15 version.  
In the application, popup is provided to monitor the values in TimeSeriesChart.  
For data archiving “Tag History” is used with Expression option selected. “Binding Preview” showing that values are collected, however when trying to see in the dataset the values are not collected. Only time stamp values are dumped in first column and data columns are empty.

 ![TimeSeriesChartPopup_TagHistory_ExpressionBinding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/c/ac970eed3c437146352b5045182ee6348c288f3d.png)  
 ![TimeSeriesChartPopup_TagHistory_ExpressionBinding_ValuesInDataset](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/6/66e772ac4be010923846f99915e606c93531a43e.png)

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093/2 "2022-04-06T09:41:40Z")

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Try setting your binding’s query mode to ‘as stored’ or whatever it’s called.  
If the resulting dataset is empty, then you don’t have any data points in that time range.  
Periodic queries will still return a dataset, with as many rows as periods in the selected time range… But if no values where found for some time points, then the values columns will be empty.

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**Author:** ![mandar\_ganoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mandar\_ganoo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mandar_ganoo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093/3 "2022-04-06T11:16:36Z")

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Thanks for the reply.  
However we have crosschecked the data in “powerchart”. PowerChart is displaying the data for same period.

 ![PowerChart_Trend](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/8/f8de74930e594fba7aaddce6e883f324126bb3ad.png)

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093/4 "2022-04-06T11:19:27Z")

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It’s not the same time range.  
Try the ‘as stored’ querymode. I’ve had very weird behavior with the other ones, including disappearing data points on some time range configurations.

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**Author:** ![Sayantan\_Chatterjee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sayantan\_Chatterjee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sayantan_Chatterjee)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/timeserieschart-not-showing-lines-in-chart/58093/5 "2022-09-21T16:31:59Z")

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I am doing the same thing. But I am getting only 2 column like timestamp and another 1 for tag. But looking to add another column for different tag.