# Open Multiple Popups

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316 "2022-03-17T16:28:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![wbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wbaker/32/85315_2.png) [@wbaker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wbaker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/1 "2022-03-17T16:28:47Z")

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Hey y’all,

A customer has asked how to open multiple popups in perspective. I’ve search but came up empty and haven’t had much luck getting two to open on a screen.

Their goal is to open a popup for Valve A and Valve B in the same window.

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/2 "2022-03-17T16:40:19Z")

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I don’t follow, you can open as many popup views as you want, as far as i am aware. If you were to do this with a button you would just add two popup actions. Perhaps if you share more of what exactly you are trying to do, we could help.

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**Author:** ![wbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wbaker/32/85315_2.png) [@wbaker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wbaker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/3 "2022-03-17T16:53:46Z")

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It may be the settings we are using, but opening two popups at once in perspective hasn’t worked for me.

I can open a popup for a valve and a popup for a analog sensor, but I can’t get two valves to popup.

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/4 "2022-03-17T17:03:02Z")

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What if you try this simple test, create a button and add two popup actions like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/c/9c2aed132429a31c80732739e1c8841d1445bd69.png)

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**Author:** ![wbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wbaker/32/85315_2.png) [@wbaker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wbaker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/5 "2022-03-17T17:21:06Z")

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Thank you for the screen shot, but 1 button to open two popups isn’t ideal for our scenario.

Reading the documents, we may change our ‘id’ via the script function to open a popup, that way a templated popup can have its own identifier.

I’ll get to test this this afternoon and will update the thread.

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**Author:** ![wbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wbaker/32/85315_2.png) [@wbaker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wbaker)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-multiple-popups/57316/6 "2022-03-18T04:42:48Z")

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So we found that updating the identifier for each popup request did what we were looking for.