# Template Repeater – Touch Screen Drag Scrolling Support?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-repeater-touch-screen-drag-scrolling-support/113923>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition81\
**Created:** [February 12, 2026, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-repeater-touch-screen-drag-scrolling-support/113923 "2026-02-12T10:10:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-repeater-touch-screen-drag-scrolling-support/113923/2 "2026-02-12T13:42:00Z")

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Yes, using standard `JScrollPane` techniques with the appropriate drag listeners. However, there is a catch: any component in your templates that consumes mouse events will consume the drag events and they will never reach your outer listeners.

You may need to resend mouse events from those template components to support this. There are a number of forum posts that have examples. Perhaps this one inspires you:

> [@Passing scroll events from child repeater to parent canvas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/passing-scroll-events-from-child-repeater-to-parent-canvas/94282/7):
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> To play around with this, I set up a template canvas where one of the templates had a template repeater that didn't need scrolling. This script produced the desired result from the nested template repeater's propertyChange event handler: # Written for the propertyChange event handler of the TEMPLATE REPEATER # Won't run in designer unless preview mode is on prior to opening the window if event.propertyName == 'componentRunning': # Nested function that gets all components of a given class wit…

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