# How to add components to a container

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 10, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522 "2010-02-10T12:02:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lifetec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Lifetec](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Lifetec)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522/1 "2010-02-10T12:02:00Z")

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How can I add different components to a container?  
I can’t find any of this in the help… ![:scratch:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/76d1620bec252bfac07050c889ff5a91dc8a9c25.gif ":scratch:")

grtz

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**Author:** ![Lifetec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Lifetec](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Lifetec)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522/2 "2010-02-10T13:51:33Z")

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Ok I found it myself, with the help of the old factoryPMI online helpsystem. You have te draw them in to the container. Moving an existing component into the container doesn’t work. 😒  
It could be very handy if the possibility exists to click&move existing components in to the container, without redrawing them from scratch out of the toolbox.

[update] a existing solution is to simply copy the controls and paste them in the container. All the properties are copied too. Then, you can remove the original one, eventually.

grtz  
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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522/3 "2010-02-10T15:26:31Z")

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Yeah, you can cut-and-paste existing components into a container.

This is one of things that we’ve been doing for so long it’s like breathing - didn’t even think to put it in the user manual. Thanks for the feedback.

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**Author:** ![GregBlain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@GregBlain](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/GregBlain)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522/4 "2019-09-20T23:47:18Z")

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By the way, this is still not in the User Manual.

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**Author:** ![Paul.Scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul.scott/32/4578_2.png) [@Paul.Scott](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paul.Scott)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-components-to-a-container/1522/5 "2019-09-24T16:42:52Z")

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I can’t really speak for FPMI’s documentation (which this post was originally discussing), but both [Perspective](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+Designer+Interface#PerspectiveDesignerInterface-EditMenu) and [Vision](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Vision+Designer+Interface#VisionDesignerInterface-EditMenu) state that most things (including containers, and their components) can be copied and pasted elsewhere.