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  • #424879

    Paul
    Expired Member
    Post count: 171

    when starting a new listing get the message shown in screenshot.

    Previous listing has been approved and is on the site, no listings have been started and not finished

    #424893

    Guust
    Moderator
    Post count: 29970

    You would not see that listing anywhere. All it takes is to open the Add Listing page, and even if you navigate away without any input at all, you will be reminded next time that you have been on the Add Listing before but did not submit anything.

    Maybe it would be better that you at least entered some data, before the reminder pops up next time. Let’s see what Stiofan thinks.

    #424910

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    A auto-draft is created when u visit the add listing either front or back, but only the front will alert you to ones already started. I am open to suggestions as how to deal with them.

    Stiofan

    #425219

    Paul
    Expired Member
    Post count: 171

    Can it not be added when a field is edited rather than the page or can they be prompted with ‘are you sure you want to leave without saving’

    Reason for my view – when new users are thinking of listing they often look through the site and visit the listing page to get a feel for what is required. Returning they will see that message which may add some confusion.

    #425325

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    The post auto-draft is created when visiting the page (just like WP) so we can get a post ID to use for ajax saving etc.

    Also:

    Auto-drafts are automatically deleted after 7 days of going unused. They're self-cleaning, basically. No need to worry about them.

    Stiofan

    #430113

    Jeff Adams
    Free User
    Post count: 1780

    I feel the same as websitu. I think I prefer to not have the notification if it’s going to cause confusion. I want to do everything I can to create as little confusion as possible. Is it easy to disable this notification if it cannot be like websitu suggested?

    #430848

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    It the process of visiting the page that creates it, its not created by ajax after visiting the page so we can’t prevent it unless info is entered for that reason.

    If you don’t like the message you could hide it but it would still show u the post last started if its empty then thats not a problem but if it has info then they would have no way to start again quickly from fresh.

    Stiofan

    #430963

    Jeff Adams
    Free User
    Post count: 1780

    Thanks Stiofan, I guess it’s really minor and more confusing because we’re just testing the site. If we were actually using the site it may not be all that odd. Of course, it would be far more ideal to only show if we actually entered something. It’s definitely going to be confusing to the end user if they go to the page (e.g. out of curiousity), navigate away, and go back. They’re going to be like ??? lol But, it’s just a minor confusion I suppose. And, if they entered something I’m not sure they would really want to remove it or “all of it” for that matter. It’s easy enough to remove a field of content or refresh a page to start over.

    Is it easy to hide should we decide we prefer to not have it?

    Thanks again!

    #430981

    Dirk
    Full Member
    Post count: 390

    I also think that this is confusing the users. If you are “visiting” the page multiple times there are also multiple auto-drafts. To get this message away (in this case), you have to click multiple times on the presented link.
    I don’t see a usecase for my webpage that the user is starting to enter information, leave the page and like to continue later (within the 7 days).
    If you like to keep this function, make it optional. I don’t like to hide the message by CSS code.

    Thanks,
    Dirk

    #431005

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    @Dirk, visiting the page multiple times does NOT create multiple auto-drafts, this is the point, it shows you the latest auto-draft over and over.
    What is likely happening in your case is every time you visit the backend add new listing it also creates a auto-draft and if u refresh or navigate away then it will just create a new one, where as we just show the latest one (meaning we don’t create multiple). This can be a pain for the admin but it will only happen to the admin in most cases, and the auto drafts will be deleted after a short time, or u can do it manually on our frontend add listing page.

    Stiofan

    #431006

    Dirk
    Full Member
    Post count: 390

    @stiofan,

    I don’t have a usecase for this feature and I like to have a switch to disable it. Hiding by CSS is not an option for me.

    Best,
    Dirk

    #431008

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    @dirk, the act of visiting the add listing page will create an auto draft so we can get a post_id, it does auto saving in the backgroud, much like WP core but this is front facing and if we just created a new auto draft each time then someone could spam your site just by refreshing the page over and over and clogging your DB full of auto drafts.

    Stiofan

    #431010

    Dirk
    Full Member
    Post count: 390

    @stiofan,

    in GDv1 visiting he frontend add place page it is not creating any auto-drafts (in the standard WP tables, not sure what you do in your own tables) as I can see.

    Best,
    Dirk

    #431012

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Yes v1 we did not do it the WP way and we used session to save the data which meant any host not using sessions would not work with GD, so now we are moving to the WP way so we don’t have to use sessions, its stored in the DB instead.

    Stiofan

    #431016

    Dirk
    Full Member
    Post count: 390

    @stiofan,

    to be more precise: I don’t have a usecase for the feature:
    1) Visit the add place page start editing
    2) leave the page
    3) Revisit the add place page and continue to edit

    So, I don’t need this feature. If you are talking about a usecase like SPAM protection, I agree that this is a must feature. But this is a different usecase to the above and no need to give the user a message/feedback or even to refill the fields.

    Again, this feature like it is implemented at the moment is confusing a user as described above.

    Best,
    Dirk

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