# Perspective Drawing Editor Grouping Improvements

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-drawing-editor-grouping-improvements/112048>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [November 7, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-drawing-editor-grouping-improvements/112048 "2025-11-07T21:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![mperkins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mperkins/32/71722_2.png) [@mperkins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mperkins)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-drawing-editor-grouping-improvements/112048/1 "2025-11-07T21:32:51Z")

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I'm excited to share some major updates to the **drag and drop functionality** of the Drawing Editor’s Elements panel that will make organizing your elements more intuitive.

The biggest change is the ability to **move multiple elements at once!** No more dragging one element at a time—select as many as you need and move them all together even if the selected elements are from different parent groups.

Other improvements:

- When moving multiple items, if you've selected a group and some of its descendants, the editor is smart enough to just move the group element.

- Dragging an element now shows a visual indicator to help you know exactly where it will land:

- The drag 'ghost' now has an offset that clearly indicates the nesting level your elements will move to, which is especially helpful when working with deeply nested groups.

- If you attempt an "invalid" drag (like trying to drag a parent group into one of its own children), you won't see a placement indicator, letting you know that the action won't be applied.

- When moving multiple elements, the drag ghost now displays the _number_ of elements being moved instead of the just one element's name.

A welcome side effect of internal improvements to support this drag and drop functionality is that the Duplicate Element functionality now reliably places the duplicated elements into the expected element positions- whereas before it could get “confused” as individually duplicated elements shifted.

Let us know what you think in the comments below and I hope to have some more Drawing Editor improvements for you all in the very near future 🙂

![grouping_improvements_1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/9/a95d8d7efd2bf0111d186c43e0596545871f3c79.gif)

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**Author:** ![mperkins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mperkins/32/71722_2.png) [@mperkins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mperkins)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-drawing-editor-grouping-improvements/112048/2 "2025-11-07T21:42:46Z")

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