# Not able to add components in Perspective view

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-add-components-in-perspective-view/27882>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-add-components-in-perspective-view/27882 "2019-08-29T16:34:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![gaurav\_shitole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gaurav\_shitole](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gaurav_shitole)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-add-components-in-perspective-view/27882/1 "2019-08-29T16:34:12Z")

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Hi Team,

I was working in Ignition v8 perspective view and suddenly all the perspective components has disabled. So I am not able to draw any component on the page.

Please note that, I have worked on it before without any issue but today it has happened unexpectedly. Also I am able to get components in Vision. This is only happening to Perspective.  
At first I thought this is due to my 2 hour trial end so I restarted but It didn’t help. please see attached screenshot for reference.

Thank you in advance.

OS: Windows  
Ignition version: 8.02  
Intel i5 8th gen

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**Author:** ![grietveld](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/grietveld/32/6984_2.png) [@grietveld](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/grietveld)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-add-components-in-perspective-view/27882/2 "2019-08-29T16:35:07Z")

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**Author:** ![gaurav\_shitole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@gaurav\_shitole](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gaurav_shitole)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-add-components-in-perspective-view/27882/3 "2019-08-29T16:36:53Z")

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Oh damn! Yes I tried every stuff and…  
this was what causing it. Thanks