I have thought of this hundreds of times and I always have the problem with my 
users quitting the browser. Yea, that's right make some edits, walk away, come 
back and quit the browser.

same issue different take.

Ted

--- On Fri, 8/31/12, Markus Ruggiero <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Markus Ruggiero <[email protected]>
> Subject: Fancy D2WModern display question
> To: "[email protected] Dev Apple" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 6:18 PM
> Playing with ERD2WModern is fun. As I
> tried various things with Stylesheets two related questions
> have come to mind and I wonder wether and how this could be
> achieved.
> 
> A customer of mine had the problem that an embedded editor
> page (e.g. for relationships) has a "Save" button and when
> pressed everything is saved. Of course you and I know that
> this is not true. Data is only pushed from a child EC up to
> a parent. However this is not something that I think a
> non-IT person should know. Save is save and that's it! In
> the current scenario the customer lost all edits because he
> did not press "Save" on the outermost editor but instead
> chose another navigation tab. 
> 
> How can this be prevented? I have two ideas and want to know
> if this is possible:
> 
> As long as the outermost EC hasChanges() a key in d2wcontext
> should be available so that some kind of
> mark/graphic/text/whatever can be shown conditionally
> alerting the user that there are unsaved changes.
> Additionally to optically alert the user that he is (still)
> inside an editing session it would be great if the
> surrounding screen area could be dimmed. As long as there
> are dimmed areas (e.g. the navigation area) the users
> clearly sees that he is still inside an editing session and
> going to any navigation tab is (at least optically)
> discouraged.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> ---markus---
> 
> PS I love D2WModern, the more I play with it the more I love
> it!
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