Ignition Features and Ideas

Feature request: It would be nice to have the translation manager hooked into overlays. Currently, overlay labels don't translate automatically and require CSS manipulation to work around this limitation.

Hi all, Working with TwinCAT redundant PLCs, I've found that Ignition's OPC Connection Failover doesn't fit architectures where both PLCs are always online (the active/standby state is PLC-controlled, not connection-based). Currently switching 10K+ tags between OPC servers requires scripting system.tag.configure() on each UDT instance - which works, but feels like a workaround. Proposal: Add Global Parameters at the Tag Provider level that UDTs can inherit using syntax like {@ActiveOPCServer} . One value change would propagate to all tags instantly. Would love to hear if others have this need or alternative solutions!

In vision you have the posibility to disable all overlays to be visibile. I would see the same option in perspective.

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.

Please add the dark theme customizable, otherwise i will decompile the designer and compile it again (since I already decompiled it) with the dark theme.

We make sure all our Ignition network communication is secure using SSL certs and careful gateway configuration. We renew our certs annually. I am concerned that we may forget to renew one year and one day all our clients will be unusable until we resolve. Is it possible to add system tags such as cert expiration date so that we can for instance configure alarm (reminder) email notifications to trigger a certain duration prior to expiry? https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ssl-cert-expiry/51597/3

We have a timeout to close out sessions after a certain duration. Currently if a session is closed they're presented only with a button to "Launch Gateway". This can lead to problems if the user would like to reload the same project but is unfamiliar with how to navigate the gateway home page in order to do so. Customizing the Session Closed display to have a simple "Reload" button and possibly other customizations would be very welcomed.

Include support for mermaid charts in Markdown component. This will be valuable in showing the how certain condition may affect the process, such as complicated transitions that are difficult to express as simple text.

Add functionality to prevent interpolation of points displayed on Perspective Power Chart like you can in the Tag History Binding. Currently, the only way to do this on the Power Chart is to set config.pointCount to -1 which shows all raw data. This works for small time-frames, but is unrealistic when showing weeks or months of data.

Perspective message handlers currently must be referenced by manually typed string names. This creates avoidable human errors, especially in large projects where many views define different handler names. I would like a feature that allows developers to view, browse, or auto-complete all message handlers in a project—similar to how tags or properties are discoverable. Even a simple scripting function like system.perspective.listMessageHandlers() or editor IntelliSense support would greatly improve reliability and reduce maintenance effort.