# Images inside Coordinate Container cannot be dragged in Designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/images-inside-coordinate-container-cannot-be-dragged-in-designer/112148>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/images-inside-coordinate-container-cannot-be-dragged-in-designer/112148 "2025-11-13T05:51:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/images-inside-coordinate-container-cannot-be-dragged-in-designer/112148/1 "2025-11-13T05:51:36Z")

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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.