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Description: From time to time I loose some changes because I either accidently close the browser window or the browser crashes. Therefore I suggest the following features:

• Autosave: Option to save changes (perhaps marked as drafts) every X minutes, configurable on user basis or by checking an option on the edit page
• Reposition cursor after "Save and Edit": By using ctrl-u the changes can be saved and editing still continues. The problem is that the cursor has to be repositioned. This should be solveable by a javascript which saves the changes in a background window or something like that.
• Confirmation dialog on closing or leaving edit window. I wasn't able to get the code from BrBrBr supplied on http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiForms to work. The javascript code (http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiFormsRecipes) seems to work. It might be an idea to add that to the main package (perhaps as an option). From what I've discovered there is no way to prevent closing a window but at least leaving it accidently by clicking on a link now shows a warning.
  • This code now given its own cookbook entry (Cookbook:ConfirmEditNotSaved) as it has applicability well beyond wikiforms...

See also Cookbook:NotsavedWarning (Warn authors when they move away from a page without saving it. Optionally request an edit summary or an author name.).

Re: repositioning cursor, see: Cookbook.RememberEditPosition (Return the editing textarea to the previous position when previewing a page) —Eemeli Aro May 18, 2009, at 05:11 AM

re: AutoSave, see: Cookbook.AutoSave (Autosave pages in the background while editing). Seems like all functions exist in the cookbook. I'm closing this entry. --Petko July 08, 2009, at 07:52 AM