# Open a View without the shared dock

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-view-without-the-shared-dock/41807>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 28, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-view-without-the-shared-dock/41807 "2020-12-28T07:11:39Z")\
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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:** [December 28, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-view-without-the-shared-dock/41807/1 "2020-12-28T07:11:39Z")

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Related post: [Hide a docked View with url parameter](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/hide-a-docked-view-with-url-parameter/41718)

How would I open a particular View _without_ showing the header dock configured in the shared settings?

I’m showing Perspective pages within Vision and I don’t want the header showing in the Perspective project when displayed within Vision. The only way that I’ve been able to do this is by:

1. creating a session prop that uses the clock (`now(1000)`) seconds to create a 1s clock signal (`toInt(getSeconds(now(1000))) % 2`)
2. create a page url param called `showHeader`
3. create a custom prop on the View that binds to the session clock signal with an attached on-change script that checks the showHeader value and if False, then close the dock.

It’s a horrible solution, but it’s all that I can get working… Startup events happen before the url param value is passed into the variable, so I can’t use this. I tried attaching a change script directly to the showHeader prop as well, but it never seems to fire… I’m out of ideas. I hate the idea of there being a script firing every second for no reason. I also don’t like that the header shows for a brief second before closing

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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:** [December 28, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-view-without-the-shared-dock/41807/2 "2020-12-28T16:32:34Z")

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You’re mixing terminology. _VIEWS_ do not have shared docks - only _PAGES_ do. so if you want to open a View then you just need to use `system.perspective.navigate(view='<view_path>')`. If you want to open a PAGE without the shared Docked View you need to override the shared setting.

Overriding a shared Docked View:  
You should see a configuration which looks like this, with the shared DOcked View greyed-out:  
 ![Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 8.27.40AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/9/a986ab2d8f976de235a4755cb635dc7045cf2ec0.png)  
You should click the “+ Add” button, and configure a Docked View which uses the same view as the shared Docked View, but you should set the `Display` setting to “onDemand”, and set the `Handle` property to “hide”.  
 ![Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 8.30.29AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/2/f27a0b65770b3379a4d35f9dc8fe34de9516d5c2.png)

I think I’ve seen you post other threads in relation to this same issue, and I really think that your best option is going to be to have Vision-specific urls for these pages which have this configuration.

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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:** [December 28, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-a-view-without-the-shared-dock/41807/3 "2020-12-28T19:15:51Z")

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Awesome, that's exactly what I'm after! Cheers.

> [@cmallonee](#):
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> You’re mixing terminology.

Correct, yes, or rather being lazy as, at least up until now, I have only ever used a single page to show a single view (and I don't thibk that will ever change since you can't use the browser back button intuitively if you don't have a page per view)

> [@cmallonee](#):
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> and I really think that your best option is going to be to have Vision-specific urls for these pages which have this configuration.

I did try this at one stage, but I wasn't aware that you could override the shared setting like you mentioned. But this certainly does now look like the best option.