[IGN-6238] Designer session type changes from designer to browser

[witman]

This session property that begins as designer when Designer is first opened changes to browser at some point.

It may have to do with connection loss and reconnect between Designer and Gateway. I noticed this when scripting startup actions to hide components EXCEPT in Designer where we want to see them for configuration. When this session property changes incorrectly to browser, closing Designer and reopening gets us back to correct designer property.

Interestingly the gateway Perspective sessions page also switches these Designer sessions to display as chrome browser sessions when this happens. Two of these are actually Designer sessions:

But Designers page still lists them as designers.

[obober]

Hi witman,

I’ve managed to recreate this in 8.1.17. I’ll open up a bug ticket for it!

[witman]

Thanks @obober! FYI it’s also present in 8.1.18.

[witman]

@obober, this is still an issue on 8.1.26 and occurs without any gateway restart.

How to tell if a session is the designer in Perspective

@cmallonee, this also happens without a gateway restart. I just observed it happen on Designer reconnect after being offline for a while due to VPN disconnection. session.device.type showed designer (correct) until the Designer reconnected to gateway, and then switched to browser (incorrect). Gateway hasn't been restarted for a month: [image] Designer was online yesterday. This doesn't seem to happen on all brief connection losses, but does happen enough to be annoying--especially when working…

[witman]

This is still an issue on 8.1.44. Note the screenshots in first post showing gateway also switches to show the Designer sessions as browsers in Session Details, but continues to recognize them as Designer Sessions on the Designers page.