Diabetesinfo-Forum
SiDiary => Beta-Tester Stammtisch => Windows-Client => Thema gestartet von: jlconrod am Oktober 13, 2008, 23:31
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:mauer: Technology is wunderbar (?) wonderful.
I was finishing a lengthy post on Beta v6 En Print Reports. Somehow I accidentally clicked off the page. :patsch:
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!) :stern: 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
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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...
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Hi Alf,
My profile also has permanent login checked, but that was not the issue. The problem was between the chair and the keyboard!
:rotwerd: 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 :narr: from time to time...)
An alternative solution to my save draft suggestion came to mind:
Use a text editor:
:compi: 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
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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)