Session Health & Diagnostics
The authoritative customer-facing reference for 360 Edit Sessions status badges: understanding what each badge means, why it appears, whether work can continue, and how to resolve attention alerts.
Diagnostics System Overview
The 360 Edit Sessions panel acts as a real-time monitor for the relationship between your master panorama, embedded Smart Objects, and applied projection layers. Every session entry displays a distinct status badge indicating its operational condition.
Status badges fall into two primary categories: normal operational states that occur during standard editing, and diagnostic attention states that indicate a missing file, layer restructuring, or dimension change.
Real 360 Edit Sessions entries showing representative normal workflow statuses.
Normal Workflow Statuses
These four statuses indicate healthy, active progress through the editing pipeline:
Meaning: The perspective working document is currently open in Photoshop and active for editing.
Can work continue? Yes, this is the active editing state.
Recommended action: Retouch on the 360 Edit layer using Photoshop tools, then click Apply View Edits in the main panel.
Meaning: The view was extracted and an embedded Smart Object was created, but no projection has been applied back to the panorama yet.
Can work continue? Yes.
Recommended action: Click Open on the session card to resume retouching, or proceed to Apply View Edits when ready.
Meaning: PanoView Editor detects that changes exist on the retouching canvas relative to the reference layer.
Can work continue? Yes.
Recommended action: Click Apply View Edits in the main panel to project changes into the master panorama.
Meaning: The applied projection layer exists in the master panorama and is up to date.
Can work continue? Yes, you can inspect the result or open the session again to refine your work.
Recommended action: Inspect the seam in the 360 viewer, or proceed to extract the next view.
Document State Warnings
Warnings related to document availability or active document context:
What you see: The session card indicates that the parent panorama document is not currently open in Photoshop.
Possible causes: This status indicates that the master panorama file was closed in Photoshop while the extension or an associated edit document remained active.
Can work continue? Session actions are paused until the master panorama is reopened.
Recommended action: Reopen the master panorama PSD or PSB document in Photoshop.
A real session entry showing one authentic attention or problem status.
Layer Integrity Warnings
These statuses appear when managed Photoshop layers are altered, moved, or duplicated:
Possible causes: This can happen when the embedded Smart Object layer (360 Edit Source - View N) cannot be found in the master panorama, such as if it was renamed, moved, or deleted.
Can work continue? The Open action is disabled for this session.
Recommended action: If the layer was renamed, restore its original name. If accidentally deleted, undo the deletion or delete the orphaned session.
Possible causes: This status indicates that the Smart Object layer was converted into a standard raster pixel layer in Photoshop.
Can work continue? The embedded PSB workfile can no longer be unpacked.
Recommended action: Undo the rasterization step in Photoshop History to restore Smart Object status.
Possible causes: This can happen when multiple Smart Object layers match the view source naming in the Layers panel, such as from manual layer duplication.
Can work continue? PanoView Editor pauses actions to prevent saving to the wrong source.
Recommended action: Remove the duplicate copy of the Smart Object layer in Photoshop.
Possible causes: This can happen when multiple projection layers match the managed view result naming in the Layers panel.
Can work continue? Applying may overwrite or leave redundant layers.
Recommended action: Delete the duplicate projection layer, keeping only the primary managed layer.
Geometry & Reference Warnings
Warnings related to canvas dimensions and baseline references:
Possible causes: This status indicates that the master panorama canvas dimensions or aspect ratio changed after views were extracted.
Can work continue? Reverse projection formulas depend on exact pixel dimensions and aspect ratio.
Recommended action: Undo resizing to restore original pixel dimensions, or extract a fresh view at the new resolution.
Possible causes: This can happen when edits, brush strokes, or unlocks are detected on the baseline Background/Reference layer inside the perspective document.
Can work continue? Differential comparison relies on an untouched reference baseline.
Recommended action: Undo changes made to Background/Reference, re-lock the layer, and keep all creative work on 360 Edit.