Images inside Coordinate Container cannot be dragged in Designer

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Hello,
I have a question regarding Ignition Perspective.

I am trying to organize images by using a Coordinate Container inside another Coordinate Container, because Perspective does not have a “group” feature and this is the closest alternative.

However, I keep running into a very frustrating issue.

1. Problem Description

When I place an Image component inside an inner Coordinate container:

  • The image cannot be dragged in the Designer workspace.

  • Only rotation works.

  • I can move it by manually editing position.x and position.y,
    but dragging with the mouse does not work at all.

  • If I delete the inner Coordinate container, the exact same image
    becomes fully draggable again.

root (Coordinate)
└ InnerCoordinate (Coordinate)
└ Image ← cannot drag

root
└ Image ← dragging works normally

This behavior is consistent and has been blocking my work for 3 days.

2. What I have already tried (none worked)

Reinstalled Ignition (even on C drive)

  1. Checked layer overlap issues
  2. Checked overflow settings
  3. Checked pointerEvents
  4. Checked z-order conflicts
  5. Checked project structure
  6. Checked if Designer was in a temporary bad state
  7. Verified “visible” flags
  8. Tried Close & Revert in case the View was corrupted

→ None of these solved the issue.

3. What I am trying to achieve

Before starting a larger collaborative project,
I want to establish a clean image-organization structure.

Since there is no “group” feature, I want to organize images like this:

root
└ GroupA (Coordinate)
└ Images
└ GroupB (Coordinate)
└ Images
└ GroupC (Coordinate)
└ Images

And I need to be able to drag images freely inside these Coordinate containers.
But currently, any Image inside any Coordinate container becomes non-draggable.

4. Additional issue in Project Browser

In the Project Browser,
I cannot reorder Image components by dragging them up/down.
In some cases, z-order does not update properly either.
I don’t know if this is related, but it is causing extra confusion.

5. Request for help

I’m a designer (non-developer), and I cannot figure out why this happens.
Is there a known cause for this issue?
Is there a correct or recommended way to nest Coordinate containers
and still be able to drag Image components normally?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.