Yeah, I've thought about this before in the context of a sort of infinite undo function. As you make changes in your form, they are saved to the database. Then you can, when you navigate away, choose whether to save them as temp edits, publish them, or delete them. If you save them as temporary edits, you can come back and pick up where you left off, with the undo stack intact. Then you can back up through the history.
I've thought for a long time that as many things as possible should be versioned (like operating systems) so that there is always an infinite undo/redo. Since I'm building websites that are really small Content Management Systems, this really appeals to me. For example, if you were editing page text, it would be nice to be able to start by creating a working copy of the current page. Then you could make a series of undo-able edits to the page, stopping and returning to it whenever you wanted to. Finally, you could either publish the finished page (i.e. make it public as a new page or replacing a current page), or delete it. What you're talking about seems like a good basis for something like that. Chas. David Pollak wrote: > > > TylerWeir wrote: >> Charles, can you implement something like the auto-saving feature of >> GoogleDocs/GMail? >> >> > I really like this idea. I'm going to noodle on a way to make it a part > of Lift... basically an form that periodically serializes from browser > to server and allows the serialized data to be placed in a persistent store. > >> This may be annoying based on whether or not it's permissible to have >> incomplete/imperfect values. >> >> But if the user can have a draft status of the form, then simply save >> the form data, mark it as jank and when they come back to edit and >> submit you can validate/sanitize. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Ty >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
