# \[BUG\] Perspective designer not loading **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [January 13, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850 "2019-01-13T23:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrewbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@andrewbrown](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrewbrown)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850/1 "2019-01-13T23:31:52Z")
The perspective options now appear in the project browser however when selecting a view the designer window does not render. ![39%20am](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/ba64ed4fde351cc8dce07ba581955207656c4d6d.png) Build: **8.0.0-beta0 (b2019011302)** Designer: MacOS 10.14 ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850/2 "2019-01-13T23:38:37Z")
Do you have any errors in the console? It’s possible you’re experiencing the same bug as this post: [http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-problems-with-v8-on-google-compute-instance/21848/3?u=kevin.herron](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-problems-with-v8-on-google-compute-instance/21848/3?u=kevin.herron) ---
**Author:** ![andrewbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@andrewbrown](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrewbrown)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850/3 "2019-01-13T23:45:26Z")
i beleive so, here is my logs. ```auto 10:44:03.198 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Cleanup... [+159] 10:44:03.199 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Initializing UI... [+160] 10:44:03.266 [DesignerExecEngine-1] INFO tags.subscriptions - Changing connected quality to 'Good' 10:44:03.266 [Designer-Startup] INFO tags.manager.gwinterface - Tag poll rate changed to 250 ms 10:44:04.506 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Starting module: Vision [+1467] 10:44:06.636 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Starting module: Alarm Notification [+3597] 10:44:06.722 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Starting module: Symbol Factory [+3683] 10:44:06.732 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Starting module: Perspective [+3693] 10:44:06.812 [Designer-Startup] INFO Perspective.Designer - Starting up Perspective module. Mode: Activated 10:44:07.068 [Designer-Startup] ERROR designer.main - Error starting up module Perspective java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal field name "com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor$this" in class com/inductiveautomation/ignition/client/jsonedit/NodeEditor$Expander at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor.initComponents(NodeEditor.java:347) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor.(NodeEditor.java:253) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.ComponentScopeEditor$BindingCompatibleNodeEditor.(ComponentScopeEditor.java:179) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.ComponentScopeEditor.newNodeEditor(ComponentScopeEditor.java:157) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor$ChildEditors.updateChildren(NodeEditor.java:1265) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor$ChildEditors.load(NodeEditor.java:1191) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor$ChildEditors.(NodeEditor.java:1171) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor.initComponents(NodeEditor.java:356) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.NodeEditor.(NodeEditor.java:253) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.ComponentScopeEditor$BindingCompatibleNodeEditor.(ComponentScopeEditor.java:179) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.ComponentScopeEditor.newNodeEditor(ComponentScopeEditor.java:157) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.JsonEditor.setModel(JsonEditor.java:121) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.JsonEditor.(JsonEditor.java:93) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.jsonedit.JsonEditor.(JsonEditor.java:83) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.ComponentScopeEditor.(ComponentScopeEditor.java:94) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.PropertyEditorFrame.createScopeEditor(PropertyEditorFrame.java:194) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(Unknown Source) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.propertyeditor.PropertyEditorFrame.(PropertyEditorFrame.java:113) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.workspace.ViewWorkspace.(ViewWorkspace.java:107) at com.inductiveautomation.perspective.designer.DesignerHook.startup(DesignerHook.java:187) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner$LoadedModule.startup(IgnitionDesigner.java:1961) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner.startupModule(IgnitionDesigner.java:1091) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner.lambda$loadProject$3(IgnitionDesigner.java:911) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(Unknown Source) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner.loadProject(IgnitionDesigner.java:910) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner$StartupProjectDialogHandler$1.run(IgnitionDesigner.java:2033) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 10:44:07.068 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Initializing Scripting... [+4029] 10:44:07.087 [Designer-Startup] INFO designer.main - Initializing UI... [+4048] 10:44:07.095 [Designer-Startup] INFO com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.querybrowser.QueryBrowser - No default datasource set for project. Set default in gateway and relaunch project. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850/4 "2019-01-14T00:17:45Z")
Looks to be the same. This should be fixed in the next nightly build that occurs. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@andrewbrown](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrewbrown)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-perspective-designer-not-loading/21850/5 "2019-01-14T00:18:52Z")
Sorry about the double up. Y’all are doing a fantastic job !!!