# Perspective - Navigate within a Popup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 6, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617 "2024-09-06T02:57:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hugh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hugh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Hugh)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617/1 "2024-09-06T02:57:13Z")

</div>

Is there a way to navigate within a popup, so that the pop up changes page but the main page remains on it's current page?  
I've tried using Page and view navigation

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Nathan\_Moore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d78d45/32.png) [@Nathan\_Moore](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Nathan_Moore)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617/2 "2024-09-06T07:34:08Z")

</div>

This could be done with the popup view being just an embeddedView with its 'path' linked to a param or custom prop, once you want to change view just update that param/prop.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617/3 "2024-09-06T08:37:03Z")

</div>

You could also close the popup and open a new one.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hugh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hugh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Hugh)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617/4 "2024-09-06T12:16:22Z")

</div>

Thank you both for the tips. I believe both would work but embedded views would be a bit more work to implement.  
Closing and opening a new view will be a simpler change to what we have now.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hugh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hugh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Hugh)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-navigate-within-a-popup/95617/5 "2024-09-07T03:15:41Z")

</div>

Is there a way to determine if the current/ active window is a pop up or the main view?  
If I was going to use your solution I’d need a way to determine this as we use the page as both a main view and a pop up.