# 'Designer Needs to be Manually Restarted' After short Timeout **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [March 23, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560 "2022-03-23T20:03:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tmahaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tmahaf/32/23492_2.png) [@tmahaf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tmahaf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560/1 "2022-03-23T20:03:30Z")
Sometimes my VPN goes in and out, only might lose connection for a few seconds, but when it comes back online I get this message: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/7/d77eae8e67752ef835c77c8cd3cc57fdb99bc831.png) Is there a setting somewhere that I can adjust so it doesn’t require this if I lose connectivity for only a few moments? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Mason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bryan_mason/32/30612_2.png) [@Bryan\_Mason](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bryan_Mason)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560/2 "2022-05-20T14:58:54Z")
Here's an answer to the same question: > [@\[IGN-407\]Brief Network/VPN Outages causing designer projects to become invalidated?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-407-brief-network-vpn-outages-causing-designer-projects-to-become-invalidated/59428/2): > > This is basically a bug (I’ve added this thread to our internal tracker). As a bandaid, apparently setting sessiontimeout.designer to something higher than the default 60 (via ignition.conf parameter in the wrapper.java.additional area) might help.