PITS /

00639: Improve saving of entries

Summary: Improve saving of entries

Created: 2006-01-11 09:20

Status: Closed - cookbook recipes

Category: Feature

From: Magir ?

Assigned:

Priority: 2

Version: 2.0.12

OS: Debian/Apache13/?

Description: From time to time I loose some changes because I either accidently close the browser window or the browser crashes. Therefore I suggest the following features:

Autosave: Option to save changes (perhaps marked as drafts) every X minutes, configurable on user basis or by checking an option on the edit page
Reposition cursor after "Save and Edit": By using ctrl-u the changes can be saved and editing still continues. The problem is that the cursor has to be repositioned. This should be solveable by a javascript which saves the changes in a background window or something like that.
Confirmation dialog on closing or leaving edit window. ~~I wasn't able to get the code from BrBrBr supplied on http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiForms to work.~~ The javascript code (http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiFormsRecipes) seems to work. It might be an idea to add that to the main package (perhaps as an option). From what I've discovered there is no way to prevent closing a window but at least leaving it accidently by clicking on a link now shows a warning.
- This code now given its own cookbook entry (Cookbook:ConfirmEditNotSaved) as it has applicability well beyond wikiforms...