# Transaction Group Trigger Period

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-trigger-period/8797>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 28, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-trigger-period/8797 "2014-07-28T13:24:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSI600](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@DSI600](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DSI600)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transaction-group-trigger-period/8797/1 "2014-07-28T13:24:52Z")

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I had been working with Tech support to get my logging to a SQL database problem resolved for a few days. We have finally found a solution that will work but it is in a roundabout way.

All I needed was to have a transaction group monitor the trigger every second but store data every 5 minutes while the trigger is true. Previously I had the execution timer set to 5 min. but we could lose up to 5 min of data each way from the trigger going true or false depending on when the last execution time checked the trigger.

The solution needed to have 5 extra tags per group to complete this with some expressions to monitor the current and past times the trigger was actually enabled. Customer is happy now but…

I would love to see an additional time entry on the trigger tab to log data off of the trigger time. If the time is left 0 it would function how the software is currently setup up, but if a time is entered it will only log to the database off of this time entry.

Thanks-