[TYPO3-hci] Autosaving of rte texts

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Andreas Balzer schrieb:
>> Hi!
>> I'm sure it's somewhere to download, but if not.. An autosaving tool 
>> via ajax for the rtehtmlarea BE fields would be nice. So that it saves 
>> the field somewhere every 2 mins or so in case that the user closes 
>> his browser window. I just had a phone call with someone who had this 
>> problem and I don't know a way to solve it yet.
> 
> I wouldn't try save just the RTes content but the whole edited content 
> element. Otherwise the state of the content is inconsistent.
> 
> You could try to send the whole form in the background with AJAX except 
> any file upload fields. In this case you could use a simple submit of 
> the real form.

Another idea is to store only the RTE contents in a "temporary table" 
(rather a table with temporary content). The real save (but also a click on 
close!) will remove the temporary data from that table. TCEform will have 
to look for temporary data in this table when it loads a record for editing.

Mind that you need a UI for this: The users should be asked if they want to 
reinstate from auto-save data. And it should be possible to get rid of this 
data without using phpMyAdmin.

Masi