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.
Terminating designers could have consequences… what happens to unsaved work?
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.
Yes, I think it is fine if any unsaved work is lost on designer termination.
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.