# Perspective Components **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [February 27, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666 "2020-02-27T15:39:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joshualanier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/joshualanier/32/13293_2.png) [@joshualanier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshualanier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/1 "2020-02-27T15:39:25Z")
What would cause all of my components in Perspective to be “grayed out”? ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/dfa4805780aae2f78805e0387f57a6526ac687c1.png) ---
**Author:** ![kirsten.chambers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@kirsten.chambers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kirsten.chambers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/2 "2020-02-27T15:42:10Z")
My guess is you’re in preview mode. You’re locked out of putting in any new components when you’re in preview mode (the play button is pressed in the Perspective Designer toolbar). ---
**Author:** ![joshualanier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/joshualanier/32/13293_2.png) [@joshualanier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshualanier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/3 "2020-02-27T15:42:58Z")
No I’m not in preview mode ---
**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:** [February 27, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/4 "2020-02-27T15:49:12Z")
What version are you using? If I remember correctly they added some new features to 8.0.9 or one of the nightlies to help with concurrent editing. Not sure on the specifics yet since I haven't updated yet. ~~That might lock out some options.~~ Scratch that, according to the change logs its just a UI thing to show when updates are availiable and who is editing what. > [@Nightly 8.0 Changelogs - 2020](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-changelogs-2020/31153/22): > > Nightly Changelog: 8.0.9-b20200213 Ignition Platform 13361: Concurrent Users Designer Interface Added the Concurrent Users interface to the Designer. This new UI allows users to see which resources are open in other Designers, as well as show when a project update is available. 15829: IllegalStateException when importing UDT instances Fixed an issue where importing UDT instances would fail with an exception in cases where the instance did not contain a “dataType” property. 15501: Reference … ---
**Author:** ![kirsten.chambers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@kirsten.chambers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kirsten.chambers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/5 "2020-02-27T15:54:33Z")
Are there designer roles configured in your project properties? You might have view-only privileges for the project. That’s the only other thing I can think of (besides concurrent editing in an earlier release (?) a la @grietveld) that might be causing it. The view could be protected which can prevent editing, though I’m pretty sure there’s a popup that alerts you of that when the view is opened. ---
**Author:** ![joshualanier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/joshualanier/32/13293_2.png) [@joshualanier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshualanier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/6 "2020-02-27T16:03:29Z")
@kirsten.chambers No designer roles are configured. See the screenshot below… ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/9/9755d8e84e655f98a267d06a374b20cf1486c959.png) Again, remember i created my first view (flex layout with several components) but as soon as i created my next view my components went gray. When i go back to my first view my components (in the perspective components tab) are still grayed out. ---
**Author:** ![kirsten.chambers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@kirsten.chambers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kirsten.chambers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/7 "2020-02-27T16:11:08Z")
Have you tried entering/exiting preview mode, and if that fails, saving the project and relaunching the designer? I bet one of those will solve the issue. If it persists, then I’m stumped. ‾\_(ツ)\_/‾ ---
**Author:** ![joshualanier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/joshualanier/32/13293_2.png) [@joshualanier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshualanier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/8 "2020-02-27T16:15:15Z")
@kirsten.chambers @grietveld @Nightly Changelogs - 2020 I found the issue. I wasn’t aware of the second preview play button in the upper right hand side of the screen. The main one used in vision projects is the one which i was clicking, however the other one makes the difference. See below… Thanks everyone for the quick response and support!! ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/9/93b4da0d6ed027c2d245c28b1b1756d01fbafa7c.png) ---
**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:** [February 27, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-components/32666/9 "2020-02-27T16:18:05Z")
I’m not sure if it’s due to being a new Designer Workspace or if you elected to reset your panels, but yes, you have toolbars for multiple contexts open. The best way from where you are right now to get to a point where you only see toolbars relevant to your context (Perspective, Vision, Named Queries, Alarm Pipelines, etc) is to enter each context by left-clicking it in the Project Browser, and then moving on to the next one.