# Using tag historian data to generate digital display element

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-tag-historian-data-to-generate-digital-display-element/12116>\
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**Created:** [September 10, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-tag-historian-data-to-generate-digital-display-element/12116 "2016-09-10T02:37:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![SummonerSTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@SummonerSTX](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SummonerSTX)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-tag-historian-data-to-generate-digital-display-element/12116/1 "2016-09-10T02:37:42Z")

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So maybe I am asking something REALLY dumb here but I so far cannot find a way to do this… I want to use tag historian data to generate a display element. For example, we extract water from wells and I run a total throughout the day for a given well. On one of my screens I want to be able to display the water drawn from that well today (easy to do, just display the value of that tag) but next to it I want to display yesterday, the last day, and the last week. These are all values I can get from tag history but cannot find a way to get them on the fly and display them. Am I missing something or do I need to be doing this in the background and feeding it into tags to use for the display?