# Trend templates

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 8, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355 "2019-07-08T16:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex.cordova.ee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@alex.cordova.ee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex.cordova.ee)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/1 "2019-07-08T16:41:38Z")

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I have several questions on trends and historian, At the moment I am using the built-in historian for ignition which in this case is using easy chart. As I get in more into pulling data and pen selection options or maybe how data is being pulled. Is historian the best route to go?

Does Ignition have a template for trends? I have seen other users that have built trends using lots of option like pen selection changing options on pens form a running SCADA like the one below.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/4/4085d3812db6ac69e6e2106b132de1d5ade6aeee.png)

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/2 "2019-07-08T16:46:45Z")

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In Designer, go to the Tools menu and choose Cloud Template Browser.  
Then go to trends and select the AdHoc Trending Tool.

 ![adhoc](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/89250bfcd32767993bb4b316ba8965888a0405a0.png)

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**Author:** ![alex.cordova.ee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@alex.cordova.ee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex.cordova.ee)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/3 "2019-07-08T18:40:23Z")

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thank you. It does most what i wanted to do and maybe even more. But the pen selection is not as clean as the screen shot I showed, meaning you can see path and name of pens would be tag names instead of the ones i give them.

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/4 "2019-07-08T18:41:42Z")

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Its a template that you are free to modify in any way you want.

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**Author:** ![alex.cordova.ee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@alex.cordova.ee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex.cordova.ee)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/5 "2019-07-08T18:51:55Z")

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Got it. In the tag tree, is there any way to only view certain tags not all folders. I added a new one but it shows all tags. in this case I only want one folder to appear.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/5/5ba6c1c13ec8441cacf905232737f412aaa5cb5c.png)

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trend-templates/26355/6 "2019-07-09T17:17:13Z")

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You can set the root folder on the tree control.