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    Adding Security Records

    Simply put I have a list that has a detail view attached to it for editing user data. However, if you want to add a new user (security settings and all) or edit a users security settings I open up a UX that is built specifically for this (I have separate UXs for adding users and editing user security). The issue I am running into is when I go to add a new user to the system, if I don't click the save button on the UX within say a minute of it being opened (maybe 90 seconds) then I get a global error stating some arguments were referenced in the SQL insert statement but weren't in the list (these arguments being the ones alpha automatically builds when using a ux with data binding and using the server side save to tables function).

    I believe my issue is tied to another issue regarding the security tables, it's like they will only stay accessible for about a minute and then all hell breaks loose. This caused an issue with me using session variables as well but I've rebuilt my entire application to not use session variables so now it looks like my entire issue may have been being caused by the use of the security tables. Any ideas of timeout settings or cache settings I need to look at to resolve this?

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    Re: Adding Security Records

    What is your session lifetime set to on your server?

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      #3
      Re: Adding Security Records

      Session lifetime on my alpha WAS instances is 15 minutes, I even tried setting the session timeout when the site initially loads to something like a few hours but that doesn't seem to work either. If I make an Ajax call back that calls an a5w xbasic helper function and the session gets extended by 2 minutes so it looks like somewhere there must be a 2 minute limit I'm just not sure where.

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        #4
        Re: Adding Security Records

        Is this under local development computer or on a separate alpha server where you have this problem?
        If separate alpha server, are you using a load balancer? If so, disable all instances but one have the load balancer reconfigured to only deliver traffic to that one instance.
        Also, if separate alpha server, have you looked at the xml file that is probably being used as a command line option when starting the alpha server instance? You might find the two minutes listed in there as a setting. As I recall, Alpha's not always clear on the unit of measurement for the timeout settings, so watch out for that - I don't think everything is in minutes, some might be in seconds, or the other way around.

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          #5
          Re: Adding Security Records

          In the web server config screen, "Session lifetime = 15" means 15 minutes but in the configuration XML file (which you might not even see or know about) it is in seconds, so 15 minutes would show as Session_Timeout = "900".

          There is nothing anywhere that extends the session by a configured or arbitrary or configured x minutes, its just the session time setting always.

          You need to capture which SQL statement is missing an argument (and share that information) and if you are using a UX template, we need to know which one.

          -- Online user security is really just a set of normal tables (no triggers, stored procedures, etc) (except A5W, component security, and Locks, those are is stored in text files)
          Steve Wood
          See my profile on IADN

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            #6
            Re: Adding Security Records

            Josh, now I see where you said "instances", so if you are dealing with multiple instances, my suggestion about reconfiguring with just one instance running and the load balancer configured to only use that one instance was just a suggestion to see if you are having problems with the load balancer. If so, Steve Wood can help you find a better load balancer.

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