Ignition Features and Ideas

Visual Studio integrates Git version control directly in it's UI. It'd be nice if something similar was available for Ignition Desginer.

Hello, Suggestion: Add a built-in script function for deleting historian data Title Add system.historian.deleteDataPoints() as the counterpart to system.historian.storeDataPoints() Problem Ignition allows us to add history through system.historian.storeDataPoints(), but there is no built-in way to delete or prune specific data points. If data is inserted incorrectly (wrong type, test values, corrupted entries), the only current options are manual database edits or full partition pruning, which are risky and not practical. Proposed Solution Introduce a built-in function such as: system.historian.deleteDataPoints( paths, startDate=None, endDate=None, timestamps=None ) This would allow safe cleanup of historian data for specific tags and time ranges, with optional dryRun and auditing for transparency. Why It Matters Symmetry with storeDataPoints() Safer than direct SQL or partition pruning Helps maintain data quality Useful for automation and maintenance Thank you for considering this improvement.

Currently Perspective projects rely on the keyboard of the OS. This can be very unreliable sometimes, especially with Windows IoT OS. Having a built-in keyboard would eliminate the need to build a custom keyboard in the project and help users move from Vision apps to Perspective workstation. It would also be helpful if the keyboard could be limited, such as to only letters or a number pad, for certain apps. This would help limit inputs from operators.

This is a quality-of-life feature request. Some gateways have an immense quantity of devices on this screen, and it would be great to be able to see the hostname in the overview (in its own column). Frequently we need to hone in on a certain device based on this hostname. Our workaround is to copy our hostname into the 'Description' field on each device to make it CTRL+F searchable. It would also be great to make the columns on this page sortable.

Would be great to get an event on the dashboard when a widget is resized.

Several of our industrial and building automation clients are requiring BTL certification for BACnet integrations as part of project specifications and compliance requirements. While Ignition does offer a BACnet driver, it is currently not BTL certified. Other platforms such as Tridium Niagara is. https://btl.org/about-btl/

Possibility to rotate the map to other position than facing north.

I do not have found a way for a view in a Dashboard component to know its size in comparison to the screen. This means a Widget cannot scale its contents. CSS units all reference the entire page instead of the Widget view. (em, vw, %...) I would like to see a mechanism added for accurate widget scaling.

There should either be a separate tag browser tree component for browsing historical tag providers, or there should be a setting on the existing tag browser tree component that lets you set it to historical mode or something. Seems strange that the tag browser built into the power chart can do this so well but the standalone tag browser tree is limited to realtime.

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