Our company uses an app that was originally ColdFusion + Access later converted to classic ASP + MS Sql for task/time tracking called the request system. It’s broken down by department, so there’s one for MIS, marketing, logistics, etc. The problem comes in when (mainly managers) are using more than one at a time, with 2 browser windows open. The request system uses session variables, a lot of session variables, ‘session’ is referenced 2300 times in the application. When 2 are open at once as you can imagine this causes all sorts of anomalies from the variables getting mixed up.
There’s a 3 year old MIS request in the system to ‘fix’ this and it’s been worked on by 3 developers, and now it’s my turn to take a shot at it. I was wondering if anyone else has had to work on a project like this, and if there was some sort of hack to try and mitigate some of the problems. I was thinking of maybe calling something in global.asa to load misc. session variables from the querystring. The problem is, there’s all sorts of this going on:
If (Session('Application') <> Request('App')) and Request('App') <> '' THEN Session('Application') = Request('App') End If Looking at the functions in include files, you’ll have a function with 4 parameters, that makes references to 6 different session variables. So you get the idea, this is going to be painful.
Has anyone had to do anything like this in the past? Any hacks you found useful?
refactor the code away from the direct Session(‘whatever’) interface:
then rewrite the whole thing later in a modern web language, and/or find another job before they ask you to perform another miracle 😉