# Ignition 8 Designer Debugging not working

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-designer-debugging-not-working/26192>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [July 1, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-designer-debugging-not-working/26192 "2019-07-01T02:27:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![connor.elison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@connor.elison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/connor.elison)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-designer-debugging-not-working/26192/17 "2020-01-23T00:57:21Z")

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I ran into these same problems. For me, the solution was to scale back the number of jars added to the DesignerDebug classpath when launching the designer or client so that it only included the client-bootstrap artifact and everything else was pulled from the gateway.

My build.gradle for DesignerDebug is just

```auto
dependencies {
    implementation "com.inductiveautomation.ignition:client-bootstrap:${sdk_version}"
}

```

When launching the designer I use the VM options

```auto
-Djavaws.sr.gateway.addr.0=localhost:8088/main
-Djavaws.sr.main=com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.DesignerStartupHook
-Djavaws.ignition.debug=true
-Dautologin.username=<USERNAME>
-Dautologin.password=<PASSWORD>
-Dproject.name=<PROJECT_NAME>
-Djavaws.sr.runtimeOverride=true

```

When launching the client

```auto
-Djavaws.sr.gateway.addr.0=localhost:8088/main
-Djavaws.sr.main=com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.application.runtime.ClientLaunchHook
-Djavaws.ignition.debug=true
-Dautologin.username=<USERNAME>
-Dautologin.password=<PASSWORD>
-Djavaws.sr.project=<PROJECT_NAME>
-Djavaws.sr.runtimeOverride=true

```

Maybe this will solve your issues as well.

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