Ignition small unpredictable issues

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Hello,
I have couple of projects in Ignition already running on screens in our production.

I got couple of reports from our operators that there some issues:

  1. couple of the components got sort of black over time (like if there is a binding issue but black?)

  2. Today two of the components (Image component) disappeared completely from the screen

  3. We have a gateway script that refreshes the images every 5s and once in some time the script just get stuck and keeps on running. (so the images are not being refreshed any more)

  4. I also have a onChange script on a tag which for some reason sometimes doeasnt finish. But there is no error in log. (I´ve done some modifications and it didnt happen for over 2 weeks now, so maybe its fixed)

  5. Some other smaller issues..

For every one helped to refresh the view or the script but it always happens again. But it's litttle bit annoyig since I cannot figure how to avoid it completely. Since the issues are unpredictable I cannot really simulate them and figure it out.

My question is if I am the only one who has small issues with running Ignition or if it's a common thing and I just have stick with refreshing the views when that happens?

Thank you for your answers

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It's definitely not something that I run into in my projects. It sounds like you need to do some debugging.

Here are some tips that help me when I have to debug a project:

  • Have good debug-loggers in place, so you can activate it when you're trying to debug.
  • Make sure your persistent properties stay persistent. It's possible you might have some race condition in your views.
  • Make sure your users get notified if any of the scripts or bindings fail, so they can report to you what they saw.
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To possibly help you avoid headache in the future, what were these change scripts doing, and are they directly on the tag?

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