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! > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be > ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/tedpet5%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
