# Terminate Designer From Gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152 "2011-08-03T17:06:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152/1 "2011-08-03T17:06:02Z")

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Like the current functionality to terminate Clients from the Gateway status it would also be nice to be able to terminate designer sessions from the Gateway status.

I have had it happen before where I left the designer open with a window open, which locked the window. And then later I was somewhere else and I needed to open a designer and edit that window but I couldn’t because I had the window open in another designer elsewhere, where it wasn’t easy to get to.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152/2 "2011-08-03T17:45:06Z")

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Terminating designers could have consequences… what happens to unsaved work?

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152/3 "2011-08-03T19:20:30Z")

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I would say it would be lost.

Unless there was a way to save it back to the gateway. But maybe the desiger is been killed because it’s gone into lala land?

Given that only the admin can kill a session, I think it fair to assume that an admin would only kill a designer session when it was warranted and they would also be aware of and willing to live with the consequences of their actions. ie: lost changes. If this is not the cause, then it’s time to get a new admin.

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152/4 "2011-08-03T21:24:33Z")

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Yes, I think it is fine if any unsaved work is lost on designer termination.

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/terminate-designer-from-gateway/3152/5 "2011-08-03T21:31:26Z")

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Or when terminating a designer from the gateway status page ie. clicking a link to terminate the designer, a pop-up could appear in the designer that says that the designer will be terminated in 60 seconds unless the termination is cancelled by pushing the cancel button in the pop-up.

This way the designer is not pulled beneath the feet of a user that is currently using the designer – a user currently using the designer could cancel the termination in the designer. Otherwise after the 60 seconds the designer terminates.