# Find and replace in designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-in-designer/97256>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition81\
**Created:** [October 15, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-in-designer/97256 "2024-10-15T13:49:50Z")\
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I'm pretty sure this is a known issue that we've looked at fixing and discarded, unfortunately. I don't remember the exact reasoning, but it's something to do with the way dynamic properties (such as template parameters), particularly their values, don't really exist unless the window/template is open in memory. So if "all windows" truly did a deep search of all windows, it would suddenly attempt to open every single window and template in your project, which very quickly becomes impossible on real, production systems.

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