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Hi chaps,
You no doubt will already have this on the backlog but this page in Admin only has a save button on the bottom of the page where other pages where edits take place have a button top and bottom. A low priority issue.
Regards,
TomO
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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Hi Tom there are two different types of forms. Ajax forms that save settings in-place, and other forms that submit and take you to another page. The save buttons are only a feature of the Ajax forms.
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OK thanks for letting me know.
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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We have had discussions about how to visually differentiate the two types of forms better, but hadn't come up with a good approach.
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Speaking of the save buttons, sometimes it's not obvious to me when the form is "dirty"...i.e. I've made some changes to it and haven't hit the save button.
Perhaps changing the colour and/or text of the save icons when the page has been edited might be a nice visual cue that the form has been changed.
Full disclosure, I'm not immune to having "squirrel moments" and it ultimately is on me to remember to save things as I know full well how much of a pain in the arse it is to maintain a dirty flag for a page when you've got AJAX and other web-weirdness potentially messing with the form across several browsers! Fortunately, even when I miss a save, I don't tend to flip too many switches so it's usually pretty easy to remember what I was doing.
In terms of the differentiation of buttons, the usual standard I've employed in the past in this scenario is that "Save" means "save and stay on this form" whereas "Submit" is the label we use when we submit the form to the back-end (be it a web service or a RESTful service) and potentially end up somewhere else (assuming form validation didn't fail).
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