+1, sounds good On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 18:05, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello devs, > > Auto-saving the content during long edit sessions, to prevent the > complete loss of data in case of browser or OS crashes, > (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1581) is a pretty useful > feature that people have been asking for. > > For 1.9 there will be the possibility to enable autosave. However, the > implementation is pretty basic, more of a hack on top of the current > architecture: an asynchronous JavaScript calls periodically save & > continue, marking the saved versions as minor and setting the version > comment to "(Autosaved)". This approach has some obvious disadvantages: > - A lot of minor versions are created during the editing > - Cancel does not undo the changes (a revert could be done to the > version at the beginning of the editing session, which creates yet > another document version) > ... but at least it's a start. > > For properly implementing this in the future, some important changes are > needed. In particular, the support for pseudoversions > (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-500). Pseudoversions are > temporary versions of a document being edited, and can be seen as > short-lived versioning branches, resulting in a one official version > when the user finishes editing the document. These pseudoversions will > be memorized in a new table, similar to the document table or the > recycle bin. > > Along with introducing pseudoversions, several behaviors should be > changed, improving the user experience. For instance: > - In all editors, "Save & Continue" should become "Save draft" and > should create pseudoversions that can be canceled, and "Save and View" > should become simply "Save" (these texts are also much easier to > understand by the user). > - In class editing, properties are added in the pseudoversion, and these > changes can be canceled when the user presses the "Cancel" button. > (canceling property addition is not possible ATM, unless the document is > reverted). > - In the object editor, objects can be added in the pseudoversion, and > all changes can be saved at once. > > These changes are pretty substantial, from the data management and user > experience point of view, but I believe it is worth making the step. > > Please tell me what you think. Should we try to get this done before 2.0? > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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