# Docked window views

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docked-window-views/110391>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docked-window-views/110391 "2025-09-04T20:45:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![carter.doud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@carter.doud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/carter.doud)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docked-window-views/110391/1 "2025-09-04T20:45:08Z")

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I have a docked view on the west side of my main screen that opens with a button. I would like this docked view to sit over the main screen rather than resize it is there a way to do this? If not, would using a popup window work, and how would I get that to work on multiple different sized screens

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docked-window-views/110391/2 "2025-09-04T21:58:08Z")

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Have you tried setting it to cover instead of push in the dock settings?

> **[Docked Views | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/views-in-perspective/docked-views#content)**
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> Views can be anchored to an edge of a session. This configuration is called a docked view, as the view is "docked" to an edge in the session.

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**Author:** ![ryan.white](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan.white/32/73193_2.png) [@ryan.white](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.white)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docked-window-views/110391/3 "2025-09-04T21:59:49Z")

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They've tagged this as vision, not perspective, unless that was an accident.

For vision, you'd need to use a popup window and define a listener to watch for screen resizing and use that to snap to the preferred side and stretch the window to fill that side. You'd need to disable the popup borders, resize option, and titlebar so that it would appear seamless.

There doesn't appear to be any out of the box way to have the docked window not affect the main window size.

> **[Window Types | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/vision/vision-windows/window-types#docked-windows)**
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> There are three Vision window types: Main windows, Popup windows, and Docked windows. You can create windows from the File \> New menu or by right clicking on the Windows object in the Project Browser. By changing a window's properties, you can...