# Ignition perspective project disappears from Gateway **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective, ignition83\ **Created:** [June 23, 2026, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117 "2026-06-23T23:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@Arr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arr)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/1 "2026-06-23T23:12:57Z")
Hi, My Perspective project disappeared from the Gateway I don't know why. It is visible in the designer but it disappeared from the project browser in the Gateway (so I cannot run this project as a client). I can see the project in System\>Projects but not in Perspective\>Launch. Restoring the whole project from a backup helps but after some time it disappears again. There is nothing suspicious in the Gateway logs. There was a topic on this forum about project disappearing from Designer Project Browser but the solutions there did not help me much. ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/2 "2026-06-24T16:02:10Z")
We'll need more information in order to diagnose what's going on here. - Which Ignition edition (standard, edge, maker)? - Is this the only project on the Gateway? - Does the project have Perspective content (Views)? If a project has no Perspective content to launch to, it won't show as a launchable Perspective project. - Is there a page configuration in place which includes exactly one entry that has a URL of `/`? Other page listings are fine, but a page listing with just `/` is required to operate as the "home" page of the project. - Is the project configured to be inheritable? Inheritable projects are not directly runnable; their "children" are the runnable projects. ---
**Author:** ![avaughn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/avaughn/32/38972_2.png) [@avaughn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/avaughn)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/3 "2026-06-24T16:07:05Z")
One other possibility is that the "Hide from Launch Page and Native Apps" setting is enabled in the Project Properties. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/0/807a361b4b6a7f0b3f47d0d3e056739f707b8798.png) > **[General​ - Perspective Project Properties | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/perspective-project-properties#general)** > > There are a number of properties you can set for your Perspective projects within the Designer. For example, there are properties for setting security levels, configuring how the sessions receive updates, and more. ---
**Author:** ![Arr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@Arr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/4 "2026-06-29T09:42:46Z")
- Standard edition - No, there is another one but I don't use it (it is not empty) - Yes - Yes, it has - It is not inheritable Someone has upgraded the gateway from 8.3.0 to 8.3.7 (I guess) and every Alarm Status Table after the upgrade disappeared, so I uninstalled it and I installed 8.3.0 again. Everything was fine but since that moment the project started disappearing. After installing 8.3.0 again I used the Gateway backup 8.3.0 so in my opinion nothing should collide. I don't know if the version changes are the cause or it is just a coincidence but I think it is a good idea to mention it. ---
**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/5 "2026-06-29T17:03:39Z")
They very well could be, but it depends on what was changed. If you had an `8.3.0` project with Perspective content, then upgraded to `8.3.7`, and that update either modified existing content to have a new shape, or new content was added with a shape unique to some version later than `8.3.0`, then rolling back to `8.3.0` could potentially result in that content being un-serializable in `8.3.0`. Example: > Suppose `8.3.2` added a new prop named `discoverable` to the Alarm Status Table. Your upgrade to `8.3.7` would include those changes to the component structure. Rolling back to `8.3.0` is now asking your `8.3.0` Gateway with no concept of that field to parse the component. You're going to need to reach out to Support for verification - this isn't something I would be able to diagnose well through forum posts. ---
**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 29, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/6 "2026-06-29T17:27:36Z")
This _really_ sounds to me like you've maybe got some weird thing happening on your filesystem, or someone's mucking around with `git`, or something else like that. An upgrade is not going to spontaneously remove _one type of component_ and leave the rest of your views unchanged; there's simply no mechanism to do that kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![bmusson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmusson/32/87530_2.png) [@bmusson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmusson)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/7 "2026-06-29T17:33:30Z")
> [@paul-griffith](#): > > filesystem I’ve seen similar weirdness when out of storage space on the server. ---
**Author:** ![Arr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@Arr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/8 "2026-07-07T13:39:52Z")
When I went back to version 8.3.0 I used an 8.3.0 version of backup ---
**Author:** ![Arr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@Arr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/9 "2026-07-07T13:43:06Z")
It is not enabled ---
**Author:** ![Arr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@Arr](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-project-disappears-from-gateway/116117/10 "2026-07-07T14:02:39Z")
Usually, it happens after restoring the whole Gateway or restoring this certain project. I work on two servers; one is the main server for our client and there is a small one (on a laptop) for me to work on it (both are connected to the PLC). After I do some changes on our local server I transfer the whole Gateway backup or just project to the main server