Ignition Features and Ideas

Are there any plans to add a dark theme to the ignition designer? I see that this question has been posted a few years ago but its 2020 now so I thought I would ask again.

It would be very useful if the Perspective XY Chart exposed the enabled/disabled (visible) state of each series and/or Y-axis when users toggle visibility via the chart legend. Currently: Users can toggle series visibility using the legend However, there is no exposed property, binding, or event to determine which series are enabled or disabled This state is only visible internally within the chart component Why this is needed: Being able to access series visibility would enable: Dynamic Y-axis scaling based only on visible series Conditional formatting, calculations, or data processing for enabled series only Cleaner logic for charts with multiple Y-axes Better UX when users interactively toggle chart data Use case: In multi-axis XY Charts, users may toggle individual series on/off using the legend. The Y-axis range, formatting, and related data processing should dynamically adjust based only on currently visible series. Without access to the visibility state, this logic must be duplicated externally or cannot be implemented at all.

Option to write to a log file whenever a user modifies a tag.

When moving and resizing objects inside a coordinate container in a Perspective view, I can use the shift key to resize the object with the keyboard arrows versus just moving it. The alt key lets you take bigger steps and the control key lets you change the direction of the resize. It'd be great if they were the same in the Drawing Editor, currently it uses the alt key to take bigger steps when moving but if you use the shift key to resize it uses the control key to take bigger steps and there's no way to change which direction you're sizing. Having a key you can hold down and keep the aspect ratio is pretty standard. You've drawn an object made of a bunch of other objects, grouped it, got it the way you want it and now you just want to make it a little bigger/smaller. It looks like there's no way to do this in Perspective or the new Drawing Editor. Dragging the selection box, the behavior seems to be the same in Perspective Designer and new Drawing Editor, it'd just be nice to have keys to modify the type of box and the ability to start the selection box wherever you want. Inevitably there's always something in the way and you can't start the box where you would like or starting the selection box from the left side is clear and dragging it over what you want but then it's not the type of selection box you want to use. When copying multiple objects on top of each other it likes to change the layer order so when you paste it you keep having to change the layer order and move one object on top of the other. The original objects on the left have the dark gray shading on top but when those are selected and copied with a selection window then it keeps moving the dark gray object to the background. If you can manually select each object in a particular order it'll stay the same when pasted. Another nice to have key modifiers on object rotation where it can snap to 0°, 90°, 180° and so on.

Being able to read parameters and faults off a Powerflex ethernet capable drive would be a great feature to the program. With a OPC UA Driver

I was recently tasked with updating around 250 alarms, mostly changing the priority but also adding new alarms where a previous alarm didn't exist. I was not able to easily do this with the tools available in 8.1, I am able to export the tags in .xml and open with excel, but this breaks the file for importing due to not having the appropriate .xsd schema file. If Inductive Automation would make the official .xsd available, this could be imported into Excel and then we could use excel to edit the .xml file in a nice table format and import back into Ignition. I ended up having to use a long complicated python script to convert the xml to xlsx file, make my edits, then use another script to transform back to importable .xml. I understand that some Excel functionality is coming in 8.3.5 but we are a long way off from upgrading, so having the excel schema file could be a nice tool for those who are not ready to upgrade when that feature is available.

Could we get subdirectories in the gateway event scripts? Would help keeping them organized, much like how tags can be organized into folders.

The idea is to define a cutoff date that determines which historian is used for queries. Any history request that goes older than the cutoff would be served from the legacy historian (e.g., the SQL historian), while requests newer than the cutoff would be served from the new historian (e.g., Ignition Core historian). This would make it much easier to migrate to a new historian while maintaining continuity, without needing to backfill all historical data immediately. Example: Query range ends before cutoff → read from legacy historian Query range starts after cutoff → read from new historian Query range spans the cutoff → automatically split and merge results from both historians

Hello, I think for me and my customers (and I see that for many other customers) is very important to have a solution with the IP video cameras with support of RTSP and H.264. It would be great a module or a new component to do that. Thank you.

If this is not already done. Can you add a way to save drawings made by me to a library or file so I can use again? Thanks