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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #9 - 02/28/12 at 22:22:21
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Maybe they will implement a 'Save as Draft' button in the next version of the software ... should they every get around to finishing it! Roll Eyes In the meantime it doesn't appear to exist so I suggest using Jesse's solution.
  
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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #8 - 02/26/12 at 15:57:28
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I'm totally in favor of a 'save as draft' button. More than once I had to delete a post I was writing upon realising more analysis was needed and I hadnt the time to do it.
  
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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #7 - 01/11/12 at 15:56:13
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Hello everybody!

One point that strengthens my point from my initial post: These days, still being on holydays, I keep contact to the forum via Ipad. With this, it would indeed be not just less unelegant  Wink, but truly helpful to have such a "Save as Draft" button!

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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #6 - 10/24/11 at 08:48:10
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... it's pragmatic.
  
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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #5 - 10/21/11 at 07:24:16
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Shocked  !!

I have to admit that "unelegant" is a germanism - as you might guess, the translation of English "inelegant" is German unelegant. Fortunately, I'm not an anglicist!
  
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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #4 - 10/21/11 at 06:18:49
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Zwischenzugzwang wrote on 10/20/11 at 17:11:04:


....You are right that one can easily store any number of drafts in any word processing program, but that seems to be so ... unelegant Undecided

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Ok, for a professional philologist to use the word "unelegant" as opposed to the "proper" "inelegant" begs the question.
  
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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #3 - 10/20/11 at 17:11:04
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Dear Jesse,

I see one possibility in an extension to the heading in the top right corner: "Good Evening Zzz, you have X messages, Y new messages and Z drafts." Clicking "drafts" would lead to a page similar to the "User CP > New message" page, indicating the threads the drafts were meant for. I admit that I have no idea how easy or how difficult that would be to implement, but as this obviously works for PMs, it should also work for postings!?

You are right that one can easily store any number of drafts in any word processing program, but that seems to be so ... unelegant  Undecided

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Re: "Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
Reply #2 - 10/19/11 at 08:49:43
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just took a peek - it's tricky to implement - for example where would the 'draft' get saved? 

something i do - write your message in notepad (or mousepad) and save it there until you're done.
  
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Reply #1 - 10/15/11 at 16:01:06
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I think this is a great idea.
  
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"Save as Draft" button on "Post Reply" page
10/15/11 at 11:40:18
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Hello everybody,

these days I finally discovered that on the "User CP > New message" page, which you hit on when you write a PM, instead of the "Preview" key there's a "Save as draft" key. I wonder why this isn't implemented on the "Post Reply" (and also the "Start New Topic") page, as I think it's quite a useful tool, especially when you're preparing a long and / or complicated posting.

What is your opinion?

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