# Moving resource from child project to inheritable parent project **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [May 26, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706 "2026-05-26T12:11:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eugene49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eugene49](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eugene49)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/1 "2026-05-26T12:11:07Z")
I don't have much experience regarding the subject. So am hesitant. Eventually, will happen on production. Is this task something straight forward? How do you exactly move, export-import? copy-paste? do you have to delete resource on child project afterwards, any document about this? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/2 "2026-05-26T12:14:27Z")
1. Use the export menu to **send** the resource directly to the parent project. 2. Update the child project in the designer. 3. Remove what is now an override of that resource in the child project. (I generally make a backup of the entire child project before starting, just in case.) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/3 "2026-05-26T14:34:36Z")
I use this method almost exclusively rather than having to open the parent project and have two designers open at once. I like to think of it as resource-efficient rather than laziness, but I know which one it really is 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lane.duncan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lane.duncan/32/83700_2.png) [@lane.duncan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lane.duncan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/4 "2026-05-27T05:04:35Z")
> [@pturmel](#): > > (I generally make a backup of the entire child project before starting, just in case.) Making a backup of the parent project might also be prudent. I would also check that no resources of the same name already exist in the parent project. I have totally hosed projects by copy/pasting resources with identical names. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/5 "2026-05-27T11:58:56Z")
> [@lane.duncan](#): > > no resources of the same name already exist in the parent project That should already be obvious as an override in the child project. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eugene49](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eugene49)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/6 "2026-05-27T14:07:13Z")
Ok, SMH... For the record, below are not pass down from parent project to child project: - Docks - Session Custom Props ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Laubach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/steve_laubach/32/60900_2.png) [@Steve\_Laubach](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steve_Laubach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/7 "2026-05-27T14:17:29Z")
Yes, page configuration is separate. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eugene49](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eugene49)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/8 "2026-05-27T14:26:56Z")
Can you help me recall, how to make a project a template? I tried to search Ignition Manual, but did not find. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Laubach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/steve_laubach/32/60900_2.png) [@Steve\_Laubach](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steve_Laubach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/9 "2026-05-27T14:29:14Z")
I think you're talking about a parent project. You just make a project and set that to be the parent of another project. Your child project then inherits all the resources from the parent and can have additional resources that aren't in the parent. You can't run a parent project and your page configurations have to be set up in the child project. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eugene49](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Eugene49)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/10 "2026-05-27T14:59:30Z")
Was referring to the below. ![Screenshot20260527095805Firefox1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/e/eebb6c58b9e8493105a964e3c5f2796afece108b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Laubach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/steve_laubach/32/60900_2.png) [@Steve\_Laubach](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steve_Laubach)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/11 "2026-05-27T15:18:24Z")
Oh, I think those are IA created things. I don't use that feature so I'm not certain. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Alistair](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alistair)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/12 "2026-05-28T07:41:52Z")
You don't like having multiple designers open simultaneously? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-resource-from-child-project-to-inheritable-parent-project/115706/13 "2026-05-28T22:10:00Z")
I don't for the same project, but I had 7 open the other day 🤭