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    • Why does it forget that I'm logged in?

    Posted by Weevil posts: 19

    Why is that "Remember me" box on the login form if the Wiki is going to forget about me after a few hours and make me log in again?

    Why is caching off so that, if it does forget about me after I type but before I post, I can't hit the Back button and retrieve my text if it decides I'm not logged in and disallows the post?

    This is one of the few frustrations I have with this program... we have been using it as a work status blog and wiki for our development effort, and it works famously. If it would just truly "Remember me."

    The other thing I guess I ought to go log in bugs is how it destroys the text formatting when you enter notes. It would be nice to keep my development blog in a Note all day, then paste it as one blog entry at the end of the day. As it is I update the blog entry all day because it at least realizes when I have hit a carriage return.

    Keep up the good work... It is a fantastic product so far...

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    Posted by Weevil posts: 19
    Another vote against the caching... for some reason I got a server error when I posted that. I hit the back button to try again, but naturally the page had expired. Happily enough the post had succeeded. I have not learned the habit of always copying my post before submitting, just in case. Maybe this one will have convinced me... cry
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    Posted by Weevil posts: 19
    I only seem to get the server error if I preview first. Maybe I have found another bug.
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    Posted by Phil MacGovern posts: 32 United States
    I had this as a common complaint until I saw that the cookie expiration was set to be only 2 hours. The max setting that is available in the drop-down (which is in the 'login' section of the 'admin home' page) is 1 week, but that just sets it to 72000 seconds, which is nowhere near 1 week. I had to manually edit the page so the numbers worked for me.
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    Posted by apapadop posts: 9 Greece
    I'm experiencing similar timeouts that are very confusing to my users. It seems to expire the cookies much sooner than the 2 hours that I've set - something along the lines of 15 minutes of inactivity is enough to "forget" a session.
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    Posted by Xavi (as xavidp - admin) posts: 957
    Same for me. Using 1.8.5 multitiki (I thought it could be some mixing of cookies and domains from differetns subtikis).
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    Posted by Weevil posts: 19

    I guess I missed the admin setting that determines how long it remembers you. Glad I didn't file it as a bug. redface

    The caching thing is still a problem because it can actually cause lost data.

    I would think that the cookie would reset itself on every page load, rather than once per session. That would give me X hours after each action, not just after logging in.

    Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm off to look at my timeout settings.

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    Posted by Weevil posts: 19

    I just typed a long reply that got lost because of a db error.

    I'll go look at the timeout admin setting, didn't know it was there.

    The caching truly sucks because it makes you lose data. I should not have had to type this again. My tone was much happier the first time.

    This time I'm using Ctl-A Ctl-C before I submit. I just have to remember to do that on every page, I suppose.

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    Posted by Weevil posts: 19
    Here's the error I got: Invalid db object passed to CommentsLib constructor
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