I hadn’t used Quilter since the introduction of “Projects” and I am unable to find a way to delete a project nor am I able to add/replace files in a project after running a job. I am also running into 404 errors. Quilter is also saying that there are parse errors with my KiCad files but it is not telling me what the errors are. The files open and are readable in KiCad v9.0.6
Hi @alex.c.jokela ,
Thanks for flagging this! Projects just shipped yesterday - so I’m very glad you bring this up!
Let’s take the issues one at a time:
- There is no way to delete a project - confirmed you’re right we didn’t add that as we typically do for jobs. Will have a look and ship that in an upcoming update.
- Not able to add/replace files - I’m not sure I follow. After you submit a job - there was never a way to replace the files for specifically that job. The suggested workflow is to “duplicate” the job - which then allows you to “replace files”. I did just confirm this works with projects too (you can duplicate a job in a project to make a second job for that project). Can you elaborate?
- 404 errors - could you please pass me a link? I haven’t run into these yet due to projects, so need something to reproduce it.
- Parsing error for KiCAD files - unfortunately this does come up frequently (regardless of projects). We focus our efforts on Altium, Cadence Allegro, Siemens Xpedition as that is where our paying customers are - unfortunately KiCAD is really only used by the free users and gets left behind a bit. If you pass me a job link (can DM if you prefer) I’ll add it to our queue to investigate and we’ll try to get to it soon.
@alex.c.jokela ah, I see.
What should happen is when you create a new project - it should take you straight to job creation where you could upload files:
Then even if you dont upload files but go to home, you can visit the project and see the job:
And if you click on that job, you’re back to adding the files.
I think somehow you are ending up with a project with no jobs in it - which is not a state we tested / expected. Team will investigate once back in office and get back to you! Thanks for reporting!
Thanks for the help.
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@alex.c.jokela yeah interesting! I’ll dm you and let’s find a time to chat. Fun!
Hi @alex.c.jokela Quilter engineer here –
Thanks for raising these issues and I’m looking into them. Can you confirm if you still get a 404 error when you try and view your project at https://app.quilter.ai/projects/69e3e1076a478b0da2137f86
I don’t get a 404 now when I view that page myself trying to reproduce what you experienced.
I did some experimentation and I think you uncovered two additional issues we will address in our next release: First we need to address what happens when you create a project and then delete the only job in it and have a project with 0 jobs. Second, it appears there is a race condition in our backend when you start a file submission but then delete that job before it uploads and does the first bit of processing which caused the 404 for the project page you saw.
In the meantime hopefully Sergiy’s answer about just going ahead and starting another new project is helpful and should get you going again. If you need further assistance don’t hesitate to reach out here or use the intercom speech bubble.
I just tried to reproduce the 404 and I am not able to reproduce it.
Thanks for confirming. That’s what I’d expect based on my understanding of the issue.