# Struggling to add components

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, designer\
**Created:** [April 11, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989 "2025-04-11T08:28:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![S\_Fox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@S\_Fox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/S_Fox)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989/1 "2025-04-11T08:28:25Z")

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I'm not sure if I'm using the designer wrong, or if something is broken, but I cannot drag and drop components. When I try, I am met with the 'no' symbol. Any help to understand what's wrong would be appreciated.

 ![Screenshot_20250411_175529](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/b/6be7d955b1eed99375985b47328ba5b33fe9cbc5.png)

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**Author:** ![Fran\_Dujmovic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/fran_dujmovic/32/70280_2.png) [@Fran\_Dujmovic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Fran_Dujmovic)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989/2 "2025-04-11T09:18:10Z")

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You're using a breakpoint container. Choose `small` or `large` from the `Children` options in the Breakpoint configuration and design your views there.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989/3 "2025-04-11T09:48:45Z")

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Sometimes I have to close and reopen the view. If you right click on a component, are the copy paste delete options greyed out?

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**Author:** ![S\_Fox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@S\_Fox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/S_Fox)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989/4 "2025-04-11T09:48:55Z")

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Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, but I can drag one component into each child, but then no more. One component steals the entire view, and I can't resize or move it by any obvious means. I selected the child view from the Perspective Property Editor. I couldn't find anything labelled Breakpoint Configuration.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/struggling-to-add-components/104989/5 "2025-04-11T09:49:52Z")

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The view itself is a breakpoint container which you can only add a single component to for each breakpoint. You should add a container type like flex into it, or drag in an embedded view, or if you didn't want a breakpoint view, recreate it using something else (like a flex)