# Hide the "Launch Designer" from the menu bar

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381 "2018-08-23T14:14:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![scott.woodward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@scott.woodward](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/scott.woodward)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381/1 "2018-08-23T14:14:01Z")

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I would like to hide the “Launch Designer” that is located in the top menu bar so that only after logging in as a Admin you can see it or at least when you click on it, It will not launch.

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**Author:** ![c.bertulli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@c.bertulli](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/c.bertulli)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381/2 "2018-08-23T14:38:04Z")

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I don’t think there is a way to do that, but you can “set permissions”.  
Basically, from the Gateway web page go to Settings - Gateway Settings - Designer Role(s). Here you can specify the role(s) necessary for a User to be able to launch the Designer.  
Hope this will help you.

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**Author:** ![scott.woodward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@scott.woodward](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/scott.woodward)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381/3 "2018-08-23T17:45:45Z")

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This will work to keep users from logging into designer. I would love to be able not even allow them to launch the client. Right know you can install the Designer client on a computer without even logging on to the gateway. You just can’t log in.

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**Author:** ![c.bertulli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@c.bertulli](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/c.bertulli)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-the-launch-designer-from-the-menu-bar/19381/4 "2018-08-24T06:27:35Z")

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Yes, you are right but in this case I don’t understand your final goal here. Which is the difference between having a user launch the Designer and stop at the log in popup or having a user be “stuck” at the gateway page?