[TYPO3-hci] Autosaving of rte texts

[Martin Kutschker]

Andreas Balzer schrieb:
> 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)

I wouldn't burden workspaces with handling this. I didn't think too much 
about the UI as such, but outlined the technical background for a possible 
solution. This means I will not pursue the idea further by implementing it.

Masi