# What power chart can do?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [March 31, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130 "2024-03-31T22:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![furkan\_yuce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@furkan\_yuce](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/furkan_yuce)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/1 "2024-03-31T22:05:19Z")

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Good day,  
My expectations from the power chart are as follows:  
1. add play and pause buttons while in realtime mode  
2. When I want to view the pen regarding the add selected tag button, will the Y  
axis and its properties that I have prepared appear as default?  
3. Can the y axis be zoomed? (Actually, I read a post about easy chart)

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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 1, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/2 "2024-04-01T07:24:13Z")

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Did you try it ?

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/3 "2024-04-01T16:30:23Z")

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Have you seen this?

> **[Perspective - Power Chart | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/perspective-components/perspective-chart-palette/perspective-power-chart)**
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> The Power Chart collects and displays data based on the pens that have been configured on the chart.

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Ahlstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Ryan\_Ahlstrom](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ryan_Ahlstrom)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/4 "2024-04-01T19:26:19Z")

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1. Can be mimic'd through some code, could probably add a button to grab the start/end times in real-time mode and swap to historical then set the times to look like a pause.
2. You could write some code to handle this, we have done if before were we have a custom selector that adds the pen to the proper axis based off of the eng units
3. Not that I know of, someone else might though.

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**Author:** ![furkan\_yuce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@furkan\_yuce](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/furkan_yuce)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/5 "2024-04-01T21:18:13Z")

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yes sir. I looked into it

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**Author:** ![furkan\_yuce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@furkan\_yuce](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/furkan_yuce)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-power-chart-can-do/88130/6 "2024-04-01T21:26:20Z")

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I'll try and share them with external codes and so on.