# Report Designer Inactive

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-inactive/10695>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 29, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-inactive/10695 "2015-10-29T23:42:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jreynolds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@jreynolds](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jreynolds)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-inactive/10695/1 "2015-10-29T23:42:35Z")

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I tried opening the report designer and it says it’s inactive. I checked the module configuration in the gateway and it says it’s activated and running. Version 3.8.0. Ignition version 7.8.

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**Author:** ![jreynolds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@jreynolds](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jreynolds)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-inactive/10695/2 "2015-10-29T23:44:39Z")

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nevermind. You have to right click and select new report. 😊

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**Author:** ![jburt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jburt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jburt)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-inactive/10695/3 "2019-11-12T19:06:01Z")

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I’ve ran into a similar issue, where the report is stuck at ‘Loading…’, and the key browser says ‘Report designer inactive.’

The fix for me, was fixing a long-running query, that was queuing 1000000’s of entries from the alarm journal…

Fixing the data / code let the report design tab open.