# Miss ability to override instances in place in 2.0

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/miss-ability-to-override-instances-in-place-in-2-0/5133>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miss-ability-to-override-instances-in-place-in-2-0/5133 "2024-04-18T16:57:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![skorphil](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/skorphil/32/4153_2.png) [@skorphil](https://community.penpot.app/u/skorphil)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miss-ability-to-override-instances-in-place-in-2-0/5133/1 "2024-04-18T16:57:40Z")

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Hi, in PP 1.0 there was a good feature when I could edit the instance (add or remove elements) completely. And if i want to push changes to master.

Sad it is gone in 2.0. Now I need to detach a component to make this work or edit master component directly

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**Author:** ![godoicami](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/godoicami/32/4678_2.png) [@godoicami](https://community.penpot.app/u/godoicami)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miss-ability-to-override-instances-in-place-in-2-0/5133/2 "2024-04-19T12:12:42Z")

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Curiously I am not being able to edit the component at all, not even the main component…

Also, there isn’t a sign to identify, on layer, which is the main component (Figma, for example, gives me a tip on which layer contains the principal component and all other are a “copy” of it)

h-e-l-p! It makes no sense to detache, create and replace all layers again every time I decide to change a detail on a component card 🙏

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**Author:** ![madalenam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/madalenam/32/4024_2.png) [@madalenam](https://community.penpot.app/u/madalenam)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miss-ability-to-override-instances-in-place-in-2-0/5133/3 "2024-04-22T15:55:25Z")

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> [@godoicami](#):
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> Also, there isn’t a sign to identify, on layer, which is the main component (Figma, for example, gives me a tip on which layer contains the principal component and all other are a “copy” of it

Could you send a screen recording to support@penpot.app of the issue you are having with editing components so that I can look into this?

As for identifying the main components, the main component has a different symbol on the Layers panel, but you can also navigate to the main component by selecting “Show main component” on the object menu (see screenshot below).

 ![Group (6)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/d/d6ea13221f8a47e3a9dc63cbbd0f5719c510f34e.png)