IDE Crash Changing Form Name

Bug Reports
1

See the video below - trying to change the form name causes an IDE crash.

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2

Anvil seems to not like you today…

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When this kind of puzzle happens, I try each of the following:

  1. refresh the web page
  2. restart the browser
  3. restart the Operating system
  4. consider a mild painkiller
4

Tried 1, 2 & 4 :slight_smile:
In the end, only deleting it worked.

One of “those things”.

5

Can you find a version in your version history that exhibits this issue, and send us a private clone link? We’d like to nobble this one!

(Also, switching to Bug Reports)

6

You’re absolutely right, I stopped too soon. What else might be done?

  1. Clone the object, under the new name, and delete the original
  2. Using git, get a local copy, rename it there, and push the committed update back to Anvil.
  3. Delete the offending object and re-create it (from whatever’s handy). This may be the preferred method if re-creation is cheap.
  4. Clone the app, and see if the problem exists in the clone.
  5. Save the app as a .yaml file, and inspect the area around the name, looking for .yaml syntax errors and other clues.
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Assuming the clone link will now refer to the one I chose in the history :

https://anvil.works/build#clone:I7CIUOZBXXCQJEON=7XXBW74WIPVFRVH7VGTSLXLL

Try and change the name of “clients”, making sure the project manager looks like this :
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I did both of those - deleting and recreating fixed it, but the issue remained in the cloned version.