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title: "Basic Historical Group"
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# Basic Historical Group

> <IUCard title="Basic Historical Group" link="https://inductiveuniversity.com/video/basic-historical-group/7.9" />

A basic historical transaction group is any transaction group that logs data to a database.

### To create a Historical Group
1. In the Project Browser, right-click on the **Transaction Groups**, and select **New Historical Group**.
 
2. Select tags from the OPC Browser and drag them into the **Basic OPC/Group Items** area of the transaction group.  
    The target databases are represented in the **Target Name** column and when the group executes, the data will be stored in the columns of these names.
 
3. Go to the **Action** tab and select **Timer** to specify how often the group executes.

There are other options that help configure the data as it enters the database. For example, having an additional column for the time stamp.