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Greg Bishop
The new auto-save feature is causing major issues. It's slowing down development in the platform dramatically because of the constant pauses and glitches caused while the autosave processes changes.
When typing text into the editors the auto-save triggers and causes the cursor to jump or text to revert back to the previous state before auto-save was triggered. It also causes an issue where every time you make a change; the global section warning pops up. So, this creates a problem where you have to save after every click such as toggling a setting or every 5 type actions trying to type. Lastly, when the editors try to enter text directly into the Title of the Form or Website, or into a form field directly on the page instead of using the Settings side panel, the text types backwards, or in reverse order, of what's being typed.
Auto-save the way it was rolled out sucks! I am making the following requested changes:
  • I would like to have the option to turn it off.
  • I also would like the option to configure the delays for auto-save when it is turned on. For example, I want it to autsave every minute, or 30 sec, or 5 min, etc., rather than dynamically.
  • I would like the option to have the browser tab window to warn the user that their changes have not been saved when they try to navigate away from the tab in the browser or closing the browser.
  • If auto-save is turned off, then I would like the application to prompt the user to save after a configurable time frame, such as every 5 minutes.
The bottom line is that developing in a browser-based SaaS interface always has these issues with saving progress. It's the nature of state-driven tools like a browser session connecting to a server. To relieve problems, give users useful options for determining the behavior of the interface when saving. All users need to understand that losing state of your work is a risk in a browser-based interface, so you need to save often. That's the nature of working in this type of environment. Browser sessions are not native applications to the Operating System with control over state.