# \[BUG/Feature Request\] Inconsistent Design In How Views are Selected

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-feature-request-inconsistent-design-in-how-views-are-selected/41731>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [December 22, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-feature-request-inconsistent-design-in-how-views-are-selected/41731 "2020-12-22T18:12:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![astraea.leary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@astraea.leary](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/astraea.leary)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-feature-request-inconsistent-design-in-how-views-are-selected/41731/1 "2020-12-22T18:12:30Z")

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In some places in perspective when you need to select a view you are provided a wonderful utility to search through the existing views. You can do this when defining a dock as shown in the picture below.

You can also do that for embedded views.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/7/b7fa95dd1d5720f66f836b4d2b90b3da6ca2ffb2.png)

However when trying to pick the main view for a page you don’t have the option to search for the view. In larger more complex projects this can become arduous especially when creating several pages.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/d/2d21bd36e45d3dd2397d8d82a6666be4797b0e4c.png)

Also when using the event configuration for a popup you can not search for the view.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/9/d96a89ffa49d48fdf5ab42c06ae256004d7c75e8.png)

But you can when setting up view based navigation.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/8/1813f90f201a65d85ec120cd41c809492b941797.png)

This inconsistency is annoying and fixing this would be a huge quality of life improvement.