# \[Feature Request\] Add scrollbar to Designer Open/Create Project window

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734 "2021-12-03T14:31:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlindstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mlindstrom/32/30000_2.png) [@mlindstrom](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mlindstrom)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734/1 "2021-12-03T14:31:52Z")

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Please add a grabbable scrollbar to the “Open Recent” pane of the “Open/Create Project” window. On servers with many projects, it results in a lot of time wasted waiting for scrolling.

On one of my servers with 162 projects, I timed 66 seconds for autoscroll to get to the last project in the list. Feels like an eternity every time I have to do it.

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**Author:** ![ryanjmclaughlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryanjmclaughlin/32/4318_2.png) [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734/2 "2021-12-03T15:04:56Z")

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The project window was overhauled in V8, not sure of the performance with _that_ many project, but I would assume its better.

You should consider upgrading: [The Future of Ignition 7.9 LTS and EOL Plans | Inductive Automation](https://www.inductiveautomation.com/blog/the-future-of-ignition-79-lts-and-eol-plans)

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**Author:** ![mlindstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mlindstrom/32/30000_2.png) [@mlindstrom](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mlindstrom)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734/3 "2021-12-05T19:30:46Z")

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We will likely have that many projects on a server regardless of V7 vs V8.

We have many production servers with just a few projects each, but few development servers with many projects each. Separating the development and production servers reduces the chances of factory downtime due to normal development work. But adding a development server for every single production server would add a lot of unnecessary overhead and the only annoyance I’ve seen is this scrolling issue.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-request-add-scrollbar-to-designer-open-create-project-window/53734/4 "2021-12-05T23:35:30Z")

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> [@mlindstrom](#):
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> But adding a development server for every single production server would add a lot of _ **unnecessary** _ overhead

{My Bold.} I would dispute that. Dev servers and the environment in which they live should be so close to production that a gateway backup from production can just be dropped in. The are too many paths for mistakes (in both directions) to not make 1:1 setups. Use VMs and containers as needed. Also to mimic the non-Ignition resources, like databases. (Even MS SQL Server can run in Linux, fwiw.)