I went home for the day and the next morning the screens/views I was working on all changed, user permission wasn't working and none of the text in my views was in the right location, also when I place a button its usually Blue and says button but now it's just white and blank has anyone seen this before
Are you using the advanced stylesheet? If so, check there for mistakes, typos, etc.
I agree. It looks like you have a style that is breaking your style sheet which would explain all of the layout changes. Check all your styles to make sure you have valid CSS.
user permissions not working... I'm not sure what would cause that. I've seen virus scanners lock files and cause them to get corrupted if you hit save and exit but that manifested as the assets being corrupted. I don't know what that would look like if it was trying to save and couldn't because a file was locked. As a general rule of thumb I never use save and exit anymore. I hit save and look in the lower left corner to make sure it saved successfully because IT put in an AV tool that can eat Ignition projects. Then I close the resources without saving.
I'm not too sure I'll start looking into that
That makes sense with the whole IT thing. also, it shows someone is making edits with me, but that person is also me. would that stop anything from happening
how do I check for a Valid CSS
You can have a save from one session blow away changes you made on anther session. Any recent version of perspective will prompt you to tell it which version you want to commit.
Do you see styles applied to your elements on your app? For example, if you click on one of the labels that lost it's styles do you still see a style applied to it? If you don't and it used to have a style then I would say you probably blew away your new version with an old version.
You can have styles in up to 2 places in Perspective. One of them is stored as assets in the "Styles" folder you can see in the designer launcher. The other is in "stylesheet.css" which is visible under the "Styles" folder as the first object if you have the advanced style sheet enabled.
I think these 2 style sheets are processed from top to bottom so you could make a simple style such as a background color and define it at the top of the sheet. Apply that to a label on the page and see if it is working. If it is, keep moving it past other styles on the page and saving to see where it's breaking.
I haven't tried this but it just occurred to me that you can probably copy your advanced stylesheet into AI and ask it to look for syntax errors. AI is really good at finding things like that.
I've seen the designer think i was logged on and working worh multiple designer sessions, even when i only had the one open. I noticed it particularly if the network is unstable, or over VPN. It didnt appear to affect anything, and the extra "sessions" go away after a gateway reset.
That is different to having multiple people working on the same gateway though. There is definitely a potential for overwriting work in that case