[TYPO3-dev] Autosave in BE

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

while discussing with Ingo Schmitt at DD08 there was an idea born. After 
thinking a bit more about i would like to show the idea to you and 
interested in your opinion.

IDEA

When people creating records in BE something can happen where all 
information get lost, eg
- lost internet connection
- browser crash
- accidental click which loads another view

So the idea was born to autosave the entries may be any 15 seconds.

Where to save? Don't use same record, but use a new table with 
"Shadow"-records. This can be an easy table where all field entries are 
saved in a serialized way, having pid and record table information as well. 
When a record is definitive saved the shadow record can be deleted.
If something happens you have an option to use a shadow record for the table 
type which recovers unsaved entries

vg Steffen