# Perspective popup dock aware

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 16, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322 "2020-02-16T22:31:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322/1 "2020-02-16T22:31:25Z")

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When I open a popup with a dock present, it overlays the dock. How do I keep that from happening? Shouldn’t the popup respect the dock just like a normal view does?

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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:** [February 18, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322/2 "2020-02-18T16:04:04Z")

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No. Popups are not "View-aware". Any Popup positioning is done with respect to the Page.

> [@weertske](#):
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> How do I keep that from happening?

There is no way to keep this from happening 100% of the time but you could, in theory, place a property within the Docked View (or session) which tracks whether the Docked View in question is open, and then use this property to determine where the Popup should be opened.

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**Author:** ![weertske](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/weertske/32/3353_2.png) [@weertske](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/weertske)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322/3 "2020-02-19T00:01:11Z")

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I would like to add a feature request to make popups (optionally) dock aware.

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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:** [February 19, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-popup-dock-aware/32322/4 "2020-02-19T00:03:17Z")

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@weertske: You would do that on the [ideas forum](https://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/).