Aargh. 1 hour editing, then all gone
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The new editor seems shaky. Is it changing now continously? Would it be possible to have a "save now" feature? Yes I know that it should have a automatic save but for peace of mind it would be nice to "force" a save I just worked with updating my latest article. After 1 hour+ and several "preview" I decide to quit for the day and continue tomorrow. I check the "Work in progress: don't publish" and then I press "Submitt" because I assumed that meant "save" but not submit-for-review (due to checkbox) Result: All that I wrote went away. Now when I try it again I see a text at the top "We respectfully ask that you please read and indicate your acceptance of the contributor's agreement. This agreement allows us to publish your article and outlines your rights and obligations." I try it anew but this time I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked. If I check that and try the changes are saved. Obviously something changed with the editor while I was working on it, the behaviour is not the same (or am I just too tired?)
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The new editor seems shaky. Is it changing now continously? Would it be possible to have a "save now" feature? Yes I know that it should have a automatic save but for peace of mind it would be nice to "force" a save I just worked with updating my latest article. After 1 hour+ and several "preview" I decide to quit for the day and continue tomorrow. I check the "Work in progress: don't publish" and then I press "Submitt" because I assumed that meant "save" but not submit-for-review (due to checkbox) Result: All that I wrote went away. Now when I try it again I see a text at the top "We respectfully ask that you please read and indicate your acceptance of the contributor's agreement. This agreement allows us to publish your article and outlines your rights and obligations." I try it anew but this time I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked. If I check that and try the changes are saved. Obviously something changed with the editor while I was working on it, the behaviour is not the same (or am I just too tired?)
We had an issue with article updates not saving correctly that I'm hoping I've fixed (I've pushed out a quick release) but will continue to look at tonight. Your "Save" button was just made by our senior dev, too, so I can add a button to trigger an auto-save.
KjellKod.cc wrote:
I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked.
This has always been the case.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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We had an issue with article updates not saving correctly that I'm hoping I've fixed (I've pushed out a quick release) but will continue to look at tonight. Your "Save" button was just made by our senior dev, too, so I can add a button to trigger an auto-save.
KjellKod.cc wrote:
I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked.
This has always been the case.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
This has always been the case.
Hah. Yeah. I thought so. Just my luck. A "perfect" mix of being overworked, tired and a bug. It sure sounds nice with the save button :-D Thank you
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The new editor seems shaky. Is it changing now continously? Would it be possible to have a "save now" feature? Yes I know that it should have a automatic save but for peace of mind it would be nice to "force" a save I just worked with updating my latest article. After 1 hour+ and several "preview" I decide to quit for the day and continue tomorrow. I check the "Work in progress: don't publish" and then I press "Submitt" because I assumed that meant "save" but not submit-for-review (due to checkbox) Result: All that I wrote went away. Now when I try it again I see a text at the top "We respectfully ask that you please read and indicate your acceptance of the contributor's agreement. This agreement allows us to publish your article and outlines your rights and obligations." I try it anew but this time I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked. If I check that and try the changes are saved. Obviously something changed with the editor while I was working on it, the behaviour is not the same (or am I just too tired?)
The edit of a previous article (tip) is even worse. In Chrome, formatting of code in C# sections makes completely screwed up line spacing and the block of the code is lost. In IE, clicking the code section marks a frame or something which it seems you can move around. Of course, you can't, but at the same time you can't edit the code. If you try to paste new code, line spacing goes crazy. I remember this as a simple and straight process, so what has happened?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
This has always been the case.
Hah. Yeah. I thought so. Just my luck. A "perfect" mix of being overworked, tired and a bug. It sure sounds nice with the save button :-D Thank you
I've done some major reworking of the Auto-save and added a "Save draft" button. I also have the page save on page unload, meaning it should always get your latest stuff if you accidentally (or otherwise) close the window.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've done some major reworking of the Auto-save and added a "Save draft" button. I also have the page save on page unload, meaning it should always get your latest stuff if you accidentally (or otherwise) close the window.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Great, thank you! Cheers Kjell
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I've done some major reworking of the Auto-save and added a "Save draft" button. I also have the page save on page unload, meaning it should always get your latest stuff if you accidentally (or otherwise) close the window.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Is the "save in-process" malfunction problem back again? For a couple of days I have worked on the next update of an article. Today when I was going to continue all my changes are gone. I earlier very carefully chose "work in progress: don't publish". I double checked previews and verified x-times with "save this version" and so on. I even stopped editing and went back to the article and click "update your article" just to verify that my changes were there. Apparently they were then, but not now. All the pictures I uploaded are still there but the other article changes I worked with last night are all gone. This is very frustrating, maybe only off-line editing is the way to go? This might be unrelated but if I now go into versions I see that for the last days where I worked on it it is edited by Smitha Vijayan. Now to my questions. I hope you can help me out: 1. Any way for me to get back the edition I worked with yesterday? 2. Why is an editor working with my "work in progress: don't publish"? If I "diff" the changes from the latest edit by the administrator there is no changes visible. It looks like whatever it was, was removed. 3. Why is this still happening? Human error by editor or me or is the save draft only kept for a short number of days? Cheers, Kjell Hedstrom
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Is the "save in-process" malfunction problem back again? For a couple of days I have worked on the next update of an article. Today when I was going to continue all my changes are gone. I earlier very carefully chose "work in progress: don't publish". I double checked previews and verified x-times with "save this version" and so on. I even stopped editing and went back to the article and click "update your article" just to verify that my changes were there. Apparently they were then, but not now. All the pictures I uploaded are still there but the other article changes I worked with last night are all gone. This is very frustrating, maybe only off-line editing is the way to go? This might be unrelated but if I now go into versions I see that for the last days where I worked on it it is edited by Smitha Vijayan. Now to my questions. I hope you can help me out: 1. Any way for me to get back the edition I worked with yesterday? 2. Why is an editor working with my "work in progress: don't publish"? If I "diff" the changes from the latest edit by the administrator there is no changes visible. It looks like whatever it was, was removed. 3. Why is this still happening? Human error by editor or me or is the save draft only kept for a short number of days? Cheers, Kjell Hedstrom
1. Which article? I'm sure we can recover something 2. I'm going to ask. I agree, "work in progress" articles should remain untouched. 3. We're not sure. We're reworking a big chunk of the code to rework the piece that handles the new versions. I don't think it's user error, I think it's our issue, and we'll fix it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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1. Which article? I'm sure we can recover something 2. I'm going to ask. I agree, "work in progress" articles should remain untouched. 3. We're not sure. We're reworking a big chunk of the code to rework the piece that handles the new versions. I don't think it's user error, I think it's our issue, and we'll fix it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Thank you for your prompt reply Chris. The article was: Number crunching: Why you should never, ever, EVER use linked-list in your code again[^] I do have a small, small suspicion which might help? I do not know if this was the case but it is not impossible. Read on: Is there an "auto save" every x-time units? Even without user interaction? What if you edit in one browser on one computer, then continue to edit on another computer, while still having the "edit" mode on the first? Will the first, old, edit auto-save and overwrite the newer edition?