# Realtime addition/deletion of components

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, ignition81, vision, scripting\
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911 "2021-11-10T07:58:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![anjali\_r\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@anjali\_r\_sharma](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anjali_r_sharma)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/1 "2021-11-10T07:58:59Z")

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Is there a way to add/ delete components in real time through the designed user interface?

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**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:** [November 10, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/2 "2021-11-10T08:26:55Z")

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What’s your use case ?

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**Author:** ![anjali\_r\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@anjali\_r\_sharma](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anjali_r_sharma)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/3 "2021-11-10T09:52:43Z")

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We want to add/delete machines through the UI. The representative components are to be added/deleted in real time as the result.

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/4 "2021-11-10T09:55:37Z")

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[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Vision+-+Template+Repeater](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Vision+-+Template+Repeater)  
is probably what you want

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**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:** [November 10, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/5 "2021-11-10T09:55:39Z")

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Add your devices to a database and bind a flex repeater to a query to that database, maybe ?  
If you don’t want to use a db, a simple tag listing devices can do the trick as well.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-addition-deletion-of-components/52911/6 "2021-11-10T14:10:00Z")

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You probably want the template canvas if you have multiple types of machinery.