[jlconrod]

  Technology is wunderbar (?) wonderful.

I was finishing a lengthy post on Beta v6 En Print Reports.  Somehow I accidentally clicked off the page. 

The draft of the post was lost since it was still UDT data.

Is it feasible to have a "save as draft" feature?  I was spoiled by GMail where I can manually save a draft.  (Although I LOVE SiDiary and DiabetesInfo Forums!)  Thank you, Joerg and everyone involved.

Oh well, I'll take time to do a BG, Insulin dose, and food, then reconstruct the post ...

Sorry,

John

[Alf]

I never expierenced problems like this but perhaps this comes from the fact that I checkmarked the permanent login checkbox which places a cookie on my system and even if my current session will timeout while I'm writing a longer post the forum will automatically re-login...

Jörg is not programming the forum himself, he's using a free standard forum software and need's to take what this software can provide...

[jlconrod]

Hi Alf,

My profile also has permanent login checked, but that was not the issue.   The problem was between the chair and the keyboard!

   This problem was a touchpad mistouch -- I am working on a laptop.  This accidentally navigated away from the New Topic page I was writing.  It had not yet been previewed or posted.  The browser Back button returned to the same Forum page, but the pending New Topic was lost.  C'est la vie.

I do appreciate everything that Joerg is doing with and for the Forum!  A key part of being a good webmaster is choosing and using the right tools!  (I have worn the Webmaster Hat  from time to time...)

An alternative solution to my save draft suggestion came to mind:

Use a text editor:

   If the post is more than just a couple of sentences, I will compose it off-line with a flat text editor.  The draft can then be easily saved, edited, spell-checked, set aside and returned to later, or whatever else is needed.  When the draft is completed, it is simple to use Windows Clipboard to copy the flat-file contents from my local PC, then paste it into a Forum New Topic or Reply.


Hope this suggestion to myself is useful to others,

Best regards,

John

[Joerg Moeller]

Hope this suggestion to myself is useful to others,

I think so. I've already thought of it by myself, because this issue ('Forum eats text') is not unknown to me. Especially if I write very long postings it's really shocking if you click at 'send' and suddenly there is no posting anymore. But - lucky me! - in most of this cases I was able to restore the text by using my browsers back button (and then copy and paste it to a textfile)