Re: Fancy D2WModern display question
Re: Fancy D2WModern display question
- Subject: Re: Fancy D2WModern display question
- From: Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
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@hidden> wrote:
> From: Markus Ruggiero <email@hidden>
> Subject: Fancy D2WModern display question
> To: "email@hidden Dev Apple" <email@hidden>
> 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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