[TYPO3-dev] Autosave in BE

[Jonas Dübi]

Hi Steffan

I made a bug report about this more than a month ago. Please take a look 
at my suggestion if your working on a solution:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=8185

It would be a realy great feature!

Best Regards,
Jonas

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> 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 
> 
>