To save you time and protect your work, PageSeeder automatically saves content that you type in the app as a draft. It can be a comment before you post it or a document edit before you save the document.
A draft comment is only visible to the writer but draft document edits are visible
to other users in the fragment history. The document view also flags where a draft edit exists by displaying a blue banner to the left of the
fragment if no other user holds a draft on the fragment, in which case, a red
All drafts for your account are available on the my drafts page.
Throughout the user interface, the
When using the comment dialog to create or reply to a comment, a pause of a few seconds triggers any updates to be saved as a draft.
When the draft is, the
After selecting Post comment or Reply, the draft is posted to the group as a comment. Until that time or unless the comment is abandoned, the draft remains available in your My drafts page even if you have closed the comment dialog or left the page.
Draft comments include not only the content of your message, but also the title, labels and any attachment.
While the edit mode is active, PageSeeder continually scans the content for changes from what was last saved as a draft or using the normal save feature. Any time updates exist but haven’t been saved, the fragment is considered “dirty” and is highlighted with a bright yellow bar to the left.
Any pause in typing for a few seconds triggers the draft save and the display of the
Any edit automatically saves as a draft, but the system doesn’t commit an edit to the document without explicitly selecting Save. Also, in the event of the browser closing prematurely, it’s possible that an edit isn’t saved as a draft. To minimize the potential for lost work, users are encouraged to save frequently.
If you have drafts or dirty edits in your document, PageSeeder shows you the number
of unsaved changes in the top right-hand corner of the document toolbar. For example:
You can also save all the unsaved changes by pressing Control+S on Windows or Command+S on macOS.
If you only want to save the current edit, you can click the
Unless another user has rejected your draft:
If another user unlocks, edits and saves a fragment that you had an existing draft on, their content is the current content that loads when you return to the document. In this case, you are no longer able to see your draft content.
If a user forgets to save their changes, it makes it difficult for other users to contribute. There are options that let contributors review and accept or reject the draft of another contributor.
If you view a document that another user has created a draft in, to the left of the
fragment, you see a red
The current content of the fragment is the last saved content, not the content of the users’ draft as they haven’t saved that content yet.
To edit the fragment, click the
Ideally, it is best to avoid having multiple drafts or having to merge changes. Although it’s best to wait until a concurrent editor is finished, the following options are available in cases where that doesn’t happen.
When you click a
A message confirms the author and when they created their draft and, when user is in edit mode, there are three action buttons:
These buttons are intended for when someone leaves the fragment in draft state and forgets about it. If a user has a recent draft on the document, that is, less than one hour old, you see a message stating “...Accept, Reject or Ignore are NOT recommended while someone else is editing.”
There is also an option to add an edit note to any of the actions before clicking Confirm to finalize it.
To save time, you can Accept or Reject another users' draft when you aren’t in edit mode.
See Concurrent editing.
The current content is the last saved content. Draft content is available in a users’ My drafts or in the fragment history—click the
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