Autosave

Autosave stores the draft of the object you are editing automatically, so a closed browser or a lost connection does not lose the work. It is the ezautosave extension, which a new Exponential 6 installation installs with Composer and activates for every site.

What it does

• Saves the draft every Interval seconds.
• Saves it when you leave a form field you changed (TrackUserInput).
• Hides the Store draft button, which is no longer needed (HideStoreDraftButton).
• Tries to save when the editor leaves the edit page unexpectedly (back button, closing the tab).
• Adds a preview of the draft to the edit page of the administration; the preview link can be hidden (HidePreviewLink). Links followed from the preview lead to the live site.

Since Exponential 6.0.6 the administration's autosave and preview run on the jQuery-based Exponential UI (Exp.autosave.AutoSubmit, Exp.autosave.Preview); the YUI version is gone.

Settings

Override in settings/override/autosave.ini.append.php. The shipped values:

[AutosaveSettings]
# seconds between two automatic saves
Interval=180
# also save when the user leaves a field that changed
TrackUserInput=enabled
HideStoreDraftButton=enabled
HidePreviewLink=disabled

[BrowserWorkarounds]
# Internet Explorer versions in which autosave is off when the form has a password field
IEDisableWithPassword[]
IEDisableWithPassword[]=11

Limits

• Autosave saves a draft; it never publishes.
• In Internet Explorer 11 it is switched off on forms with a password field ([BrowserWorkarounds]).

Related pages

• ezautosave: drafts that save themselves (settings, release history, developer notes)
• Drafts and pending items