# Two docked views in South Position not working

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [August 2, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602 "2022-08-02T20:55:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![brandon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@brandon1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brandon1)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602/1 "2022-08-02T20:55:22Z")

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I have two docked views defined. One is in the shared settings and it used for simple navigation.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/5/f592e89ebca9c077906ffaa7decb6f1c6e447049.png)

The second dock is defined on the page itself and is an onDemand with the handle that you see.

The problem is, when I open the onDemand view the static visible dock defined in shared settings disappears. Am I doing something wrong in my setup?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/c/8cbe8927f2200aa145b97138d7fd0844d3377b28.png)

Setup for shared settings:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/3/e3f6a346c201d353f190693cf3d227d79da90075.png)

Setup for individual page:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/7/d709fe171f6aacded6281c44de40867bd44bf2b3.png)

Thanks,  
Brandon

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602/2 "2022-08-02T21:14:46Z")

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Sadly I don’t think it’s currently supported to have two open docks on one cardinal position 🙁

> [@\[IGN-7179\] Perspective: Allow multiple docks for each dock](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-allow-multiple-docks-for-each-dock/38913/3):
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> You can have multiple docks attached to a given side, but you can only have one open at a time. You would open/close/toggle docks on a given side using the Dock ID. You can also use this to “override” a shared Docked View. From your screenshot, if you did not want “Header” displayed for a given Page Configuration you would create a second Docked View with the same path, and then specify for the second (local) configuration of the docked view to be onDemand and hide its handle. I think there’s …

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**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602/3 "2022-08-02T21:49:10Z")

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We do not support multiple docks being open on one side of a Page.

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**Author:** ![YF129701](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/yf129701/32/60498_2.png) [@YF129701](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/YF129701)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/two-docked-views-in-south-position-not-working/62602/4 "2022-08-02T22:59:21Z")

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What you could try\* is to use the new [Split Container](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Perspective+-+Split+Container) (v8.1.18) to mimic the behavior of a docked window. In my head, I would probably define one of the docks as I normally would (probably the one that would be used more) and then for the other one, you can drop your contents into a split container that you would set the size of to mimic opening and closing it.

Another thing you can try is create a view you’ll define as a dock and then inside that view, have a container that you will toggle the `display` property to simulate opening/closing another dock.

The last thing I can come up with is to open a popup window (with a docked view) with the `position` property specified, like so:

```json
position: {
    left: 0,
    right: 0,
    bottom: 0, 
    height: 350px // simulate dock size
}

```

EDIT: Another idea I have is to use the new `system.perspective.alterDock` function available in v8.1.19 to open a dock and then when you would trigger your second dock, you can change the size of the one dock that is already open to “open” the other one (just make it visible to the user).

\ ***Disclaimer:** Just ideas, have not implemented this before so I don’t know if they work or not