# ParaView Glance is hard to find
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977 "2020-07-28T17:12:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/1 "2020-07-28T17:12:20Z")
ParaView Glance is hard to find. Why isn’t there a big, bright, blinking button on the [paraview.org](http://paraview.org) front page saying “Here is Glance!”
@jourdain @cory.quammen @utkarsh.ayachit
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### Author:  [@jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jourdain)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/2 "2020-07-28T17:19:37Z")
ParaViewGlance is bundled with ParaView but can be used online without downloading it [here](https://kitware.github.io/paraview-glance/).
I don’t think we want users to download it as it is a web application.
Maybe we just need a menu entry in ParaView that will open PVGlance for you on your system.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/3 "2020-07-28T17:31:57Z")
Really? OK, lets see.
- I know ParaView fairly well. I can’t find Glance in the ParaView download. I looked at the blog post, and IT doesn’t say that Glance is in the ParaView download. Thus, yep, your usage is zero. If we want to have glance with ParaView, link it from a menu! (I would recommend either Tools or File…)
- We can start Glance externally. Great! The only way I have found to get to the Glance page is a little blue “here” in the middle of the blog entry. Make it totally, easily, blatantly OBVIOUS. (Or, did I miss something?) Lets add a button for Glance in [paraview.org](http://paraview.org), in the section below Welcome to ParaView. Download is obvious - it’s in the top menu. Lets replace Download.
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### Author:  [@jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jourdain)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/4 "2020-07-28T20:57:38Z")
On Mac it is in {paraview-root-dir}/Content/Resources/web/glance/ParaViewGlance.html.
For Linux and Windows it is probably in {paraview-root-dir}/share/web/glance/ParaViewGlance.html
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/5 "2020-07-28T21:02:10Z")
@wascott, also see [this](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20061). For 5.9, we should make it easier to test out glance (and other apps) using `pvpyhon -m ... ` command as described on the issue.
@jourdain, once that happens we should add section to the [ParaView Users Guide](http://docs.paraview.org) about Glance and how try it out etc.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-is-hard-to-find/4977/6 "2020-07-28T21:51:20Z")
Talked to Utkarsh, lets discuss at the ParaView-Kitware-Sandia meeting on August 13th. I would like a solution that is clearer and simpler.