[TYPO3-hci] Autosaving of rte texts

[Andreas Balzer]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> 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

What about storing those entries as a (hidden) workspace? Admins could 
see it and remove the entries. Additionally entries can be removed after 
a certain amount of time? (publish > to trash)

Andreas