While working with Inductive Automation's Designer application in version 8.1.21 (running via Docker), I encountered a couple of issues that impacted my workflow. Specifically, these problems involved the disappearing of the expand arrow and the functionality of the Breakpoint Container.
Issue Description
Perspective Views Not Showing Dropdown Arrow:
In the Designer, under Perspective -> Views -> Main Views, the drop-down arrow for views such as Station, Tab, and Task were not visible by default. Same issue for the Vision windows. I had to double-click on each view to expand it, as shown in the screenshots below:
Breakpoint Container Not Responding:
Another issue was with the Breakpoint Container within a view. Despite clicking on different breakpoints (small, medium, or large), the view remained static and did not adjust according to the selected breakpoint. This issue appeared after I added a label component to the view. Prior to this addition, the Breakpoint Container was functioning correctly.
Environment
Designer Version: 1.1.37
Ignition Version: 8.1.21
Setup: Running via Inductive Automation’s Docker image
I thik they do the doubleclick step so there are no so many pages in memory and the workflow is faster. Once you doubleclick it you load all the Page elements.
The column breakpoints only appear in Column Conainer for me. I guess is like that because for design purposes in this Container what really matter is how many columns each component fills.
Very deliberate behavior. Opening a view loads the resource into memory and makes a tab for it in the workspace. When not open, its structure is not known. The whole designer works this way--it isn't specific to Perspective.
Ah, okay. Makes sense. I'm still new to Ignition, so I wasn't sure if this was expected behavior or not.
Have you ever experienced a situation where a Column View in the Designer isn't responding as you change through the different Column Breakpoints in the top-right corner of the Perspective Property Editor?
You are confusing a Breakpoint Container with a Column Container.
A Break point container has a single breakpoint width, which allows you to have two separate view configurations with different components.
A Column container has three column breakpoints which allows you to have three separate view configurations with the same components.
You didn't show what you are seeing as unexpected behavior, so I don't know if it is really expected behavior or not, but it is common to expect the two containers to behave the same in relation to the components, but they do not.
Yes, I just realized this prior to your post. I'm using a Column cointainer type and I was also able to figure out my issue. When I added the additional label to my view that was already configured to look a certain way for small, medium, and large breakpoints, it defaulted all the views to look like the large configuration, which caused confusion on my end. I had to go back and rearrange the components to mirror what I originally had.
Needed to let the coffee set in this morning. Thanks for the reply.
