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title: "9. Add History to Tags"
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# 9. Add History to Tags

> Storing history for your Tags is simple, and once that's done we can display it on screen in a variety of ways. Let's add history to some of our Sine Tags.

## Add History to your Tags

1. In the Designer's **Tag Browser**, select one or more tags.
    
    For example, select all the **Sine** tags in the Sine folder by holding the **Ctrl** key and clicking on several tags.

2. Right-click on the selected tags, and then select **Edit tag(s).**

    ![" "](edit-sine-tags.png)
    
    The Tag Editor window is displayed. Here, you can edit the tag and change the name, data type, scaling options, metadata, permissions, history, and alarming.

3. Click on **History** on the left side of **Tag Editor**.

    ![" "](add-history-tag-page.png)

4. Click **Yes** for the **Store history for this tag** field. This will enable all of the fields.

5. Choose a database from the **History Provider** dropdown.

    For example, choose **MySQL** as the database you want to log to. 

6. Choose **Default** for **Historical Scanclass**. This sets the rate at which data is logged. This Default is set to 1 second which means data is logged every second.

    ![" "](Sine-Tag-History-10.png)

7. Click **OK**.

Now look in the **Tag Browser**. To the right of each **Sine** tag that is storing history, an icon appears letting you know it is set up.

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If you were to look in your database, you can see all the tables and data Ignition has created for you.

[Learn more about the Historian](historian/historian.md)