Admin Keepalive Timer [Support Thread]

[DrByte]

I don't mind the timeout so much, but what I hate is the fact that you lose your work when creating a product. My customers are complaining that they spend time on their product and hit preview, then get logged out. Your plugin is wonderful, but what if the phone rings or something takes you away from your computer. If you don't hit that update button, you have to start all over again. There must be a way to create a temp backup at time of timeout.

Hi Steve!
Sounds like they're misunderstanding things. If they click "Close" (instead of "Login") they'll be able to go back to what they were editing, copy it to their clipboard, and then they'll have the info to paste back in again. That's all this thing does. Zen Cart doesn't yet have any "temp backup" for those pages. We're working on possibilities, but this plugin is a stop-gap measure in the meantime. Using the clipboard will help them. If there's a better way to reword the message which tells them to do that (without making it a mile long cuz we know nobody reads messages anyway), the feedback is welcome.

[jeffiec]

hey Doc, everything was working well then all of a sudden, the popup wont popup, the cont rols are on the ppage, they work but i get a 404 error on the jqueryui css link? any clues?
//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css
Jeff

[DrByte]

Looks like Google has broken their links.

You could maybe change it to this instead:

http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css

But that'll probably give you SSL/security warning errors if you're running your admin in SSL.

Another option is to copy the actual file to your own server and use it from there by entering the correct path for where you've put it.

[jeffiec]

Thank you

[DrByte]

Uploaded update to accommodate google's change in their CDN URLs

[frank18]

Got this up and running on a live demo site without problems.

Tested on Linux Mint 14 with Firefox 21.0

Thanks DrByte!

Cheers / Frank

[Angry Bill]

Awsome, works excellent.

Browser: Chrome
Server: TBD

[Angry Bill]

Unfortunately, I uninstalled the plug in. The "We are unable to connect to the server. Your work may be lost. Please review your work and perhaps copy information to your clipboard if you had any work in progress which you do not wish to lose." was interfering with other work in the Google Chrome Browser.

For now, I'm just going to leave the "who's online" window open, with a refresh every 1 min. A more versatile solution is required, but thank you DrByte for your efforts. I appreciate them, and I used the plug in for a few weeks. I assumed the "We are unable to connect to the server. Your work may be lost. Please review your work and perhaps copy information to your clipboard if you had any work in progress which you do not wish to lose." was a problem with my webhost, who recently switched physical servers on me.

[strelitzia]

Dr Byte,

Repeatedly getting the secondary warning of "We are unable to connect to the server. Your work may be lost. Please review your work and perhaps copy information to your clipboard if you had any work in progress which you do not wish to lose."

This happens using locally using MAMP & Zend Server, and also on live sites on several different servers.

How can this secondary warning be disabled because the rest of the plugin works perfectly for us.

[DrByte]

That warning is a result of a failure occurring when the script attempts to connect to your server in the background to determine if it's reachable. After a certain number of failures it displays that message.