Questions tagged [autosave]
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Is Auto-save feature required after user clears forms
My question is specific to mobile app where we have list of forms and save as a draft option.
I am confused on one of the scenarios mentioned below
User opens a draft form with previously filled ...
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Preventing invalid preference states when opting for auto save functionality
I’m currently working on a marketing preferences screen where a user can control what marketing comms they receive and the channels they receive them on. A business decision was made to keep the ...
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Mixing autosave and drafted updated in webapp
I developed an LMS web application for which I decided to go with an autosave-based user experience: there are several different editable resources in the application (quizzes, lessons, exams, ...
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UI for autosaving checkboxes and radiobuttons
I am re-designing an online platform and we've decided to introduce autosave for settings. I understand it's important to communicate the autosaving feature to the user. This seems to be typically ...
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Editor's autosave UX
I'm making a web app in which users have access to an editor which auto-saves their changes.
I'm looking for a way to provide better feedback than I'm doing now about the auto-saving and possible ...
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Save functionality with multi-datatype inputs [closed]
I apologize if the question title seems unclear. I have a business application with multiple input/data types on the same screen:
A couple "basic" text input and dropdown menus. These fields are
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How important is "autofill" for user experience?
Well I've got the obvious user-form. (Name, address etc).
I notice that google can autofill such a form, which is quite handy. However I also notice that in our case autofill isn't working. nothing ...
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Questions regarding Auto Save feature
I have added an autosave feature to my web app, but I couldn't think of whether it's toggle place or default value on page load. I'm thinking of remembering it's state with localStorage when the user ...
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Accessibility Guidelines for saving changes to boolean controls in a web app
We currently have some settings pages in a web app where there is a list of controls with checkboxes, so you can enable/disable certain features. We also have a save option below these that is ...
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What are the best practices, or guidelines, to having a web form auto-save and manually save? [duplicate]
There are many ways in which a web form is made to auto-save and manually save; I'm wondering what would be the best practices to do so.
Form is a web application form, and I want to save user values ...
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How to clarify ambiguity in "Save" behaviour on web based applications for users
I noticed on Office 365 applications and the Office 2016 applications that there is an Autosave feature (which I believe was started in OneNote).
The official explanation of how the feature works (or ...
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When to save settings that span multiple pages?
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I have a mobile app that employs both "multi-page" template and "single page" template. Specifically there is a “My Profile” functionality that is split across multiple ...
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Save, Publish, Save and Publish
I have a question about the UX solution for saving and publishing a new version on the platform.
What is it about?
I created a new document and it becomes the "latest" version.
I can edit that ...
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Does a form with continuous save need a "Save" button?
I am designing a web-app with a lot of forms and i was wondering how to improve the filling.
The classical pattern is : fill, fill, fill, Save
Have you experimented a form which auto-save each field ...
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Best practice when saving settings to backend on Android
In my app, I have a settings page with a number of options that all need to be saved on our backend. The call to the backend may fail for connectivity reasons and I'm not sure what's the best way to ...
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Auto Execute form or wait for user action dilemma
So I have a very large, form based query - where user makes selections and filters by using checkboxes. Each click on a checkbox triggers the query automatically and the results are dynamically ...
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Best way to indicate that progress autosaves with local memory?
I'm building an app that allows users to take small self-assessments (more or less a quiz). The app doesn't require login credentials or a signup, as user progress is auto-saved (almost ...
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Save by accident or revert by accident - which is better?
I'm developing a web application (I can post a link if you wish), which has a "workspace" with some items on it. Double-clicking an item opens a sidebar where you can set various properties for the ...
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Save an item before the user wants to, without annoying them
In my application the user will describe a case, a case will typically have a title, description, date and some other attributes. The user will also be able to add attachments to a case.
The case ...
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Should you autosave when app is minimized?
I'm developing an Android app that allows users to fill out different types of forms (input types = text, numbers, and sliders for certain numbers).
The save button is in the top-right corner, in the ...
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Autosave option in a modal dialog with Save & Cancel buttons
Scenario - A modal dialog where a user can type in anything (basically, Notes) with Save & Cancel buttons present, and Auto Save implemented. Auto Save has a purpose - it will avoid the messy ...
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Explicit vs Implicit save. Differences between Android and iOS expectations
Our app makes use of a 'Shopping Cart' type metaphor, in which users can select from a variety of items, and then confirm or remove all these items at once. We'll call this explicit save.
The ...
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Austosave causing clearing of input data [closed]
We have a web application that includes two internal tabs (within the webpage). One of which the user writes down comments, and the other where they only view content. There are times where they have ...
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Restoring a user's unsaved work on a webpage
TL;DR The user edits data without saving. On the next visit, (how) should the unsaved changes be made available?
Background information. I have a website that presents user created textual content (...
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Form saving automatically
I have a question about automatically saved forms. We are developing a complex system where user has to fill the form which includes multiple pages. After clicking the button "next page" the system ...
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How to communicate the message that the edit is auto-saved
I have created a web application that the user can change the report filters, the report columns visibility and order.
All these are automatically saved so the user doesn't have to press a 'Save' ...
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How do you allow users to undo actions when the application supports autosave
Many web applications adopt the 'autosave' design pattern for a number of different reasons. One of them is so that changes are not lost when users have completed a number of tasks or actions and ...
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