# How to track which views a Designer user opens without modifying them?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [June 25, 2026, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-track-which-views-a-designer-user-opens-without-modifying-them/116146 "2026-06-25T09:13:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-track-which-views-a-designer-user-opens-without-modifying-them/116146/11 "2026-06-26T17:30:00Z")

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> [@Ignition Best Practices](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-best-practices/53078/2):
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> 1. In general, lean on the tools that are available to you, and practice saying 'no' to feature requests. Ignition is a flexible enough platform that the answer is often "yes, technically", but maintaining that one-off (that turns out to not be very important after all) is often a huge pile of technical debt that wasn't worth it.

Points at sign.  
OP, can _you_ maintain this shiny new pile of technical debt if (when) it breaks across a major or minor Ignition upgrade?

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