# Missing "undo" for many actions makes development extremely difficult

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 23, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160 "2021-07-23T22:44:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![ordosays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5a626/32.png) [@ordosays](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ordosays)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/1 "2021-07-23T22:44:49Z")

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I found a previous thread about undo being notoriously inconsistent, but really found a nasty one while working with complex SVG’s. Deleting an element is not undo-able. Now imagine you accidentally delete an element or even more annoyingly, you copy and paste a parameter within the element and it “pastes over” instead of “under” - and can’t go back. I’ve had to re-embed and re-do many elements because of this. This really needs a ticket. Also, while we’re at it, maybe just don’t strip all the styles and stuff out of the SVG’s?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/2 "2021-07-23T22:57:37Z")

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I went ahead and made an issue for this. I suspect once reviewed it will get added to the “epic” tracking other missing undo actions in the Designer.

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**Author:** ![ordosays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5a626/32.png) [@ordosays](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ordosays)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/3 "2021-07-23T23:00:34Z")

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thanks! Honestly, just make it friendly to NOT use the designer! Seriously, I’m getting really strong alpha/beta vibes from it when all I really want to use is a text editor but perspective strips out every single thing I throw at it. Just let me keep classes and stuff. Please?

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/4 "2021-07-24T07:24:09Z")

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I got a message from Cody saying that a lot of them had already been looked at in the next release 🙂

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**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/5 "2021-07-24T14:27:30Z")

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You mean 8.1.8?  
Because until now there is no specific bug fixes for that.

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**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:** [July 24, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/6 "2021-07-24T14:32:16Z")

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I can’t speak for undoing a deletion because the testing for these was spread around and I haven’t had a chance to look at undoing actions in the RC, but this post lists some of the additons: [Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2021 - #118 by KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2021/42410/118)

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**Author:** ![ynejati](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ynejati/32/6093_2.png) [@ynejati](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ynejati)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/missing-undo-for-many-actions-makes-development-extremely-difficult/49160/7 "2021-08-27T22:54:10Z")

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This was fixed in 8.1.8