Automatic Draft Saving

[rickc]

Habari currently logs you off after a period of time of inactivity - a good thing. Unfortunately, you may write part of a post, then go to research it or simply be called away, not thinking to save it as a draft. You lose track of time, come back to finish your post, hit the Save or Publish button, and are taken to the login screen. You log back in, but all the work you did is gone.

Automatically saving posts you're working on as drafts every few minutes would prevent a great deal of frustration.

[itrebal]

I proposed this on another patch as well, but one way to prevent this would be through a periodic XMLRPC ping back to the server to renew the session.

[rickc]

I didn't see the patch you suggested, itrebal. If this is a duplicate, feel free to close it as such.

A periodic ping - staying logged in - would work to keep from losing the data, but isn't necessarily the best idea, for security reasons if nothing else. On the other hand, r1435 adequately covers my concerns. On those grounds I'd be willing for the ticket to be closed.

[rickc]

I'm closing this as r1435 accomplished the purpose of preventing data loss. Thanks freakerz!