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title: MARKLESS_UI_IMPORT_SHAPE
description: "@markless/ui value imports must use named exports from the package root: a Markless compiler error."
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**Error** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

Markless prints the message, the reason, and a suggestion:

```text
MARKLESS_UI_IMPORT_SHAPE: Line <line> imports from `<importSource>` with an unsupported shape; <fix>.
Application value imports from a family subpath or a namespace can expose source files to dependency optimization instead of using the package root export surface.
Replace this declaration: <fix>.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_UI_IMPORT_SHAPE
```

Words in angle brackets change from case to case.

## How to fix it

Start with the suggestion in the message above.

This page has no guide yet. [Help write it](/contributing/improve-these-docs).

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).