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 writing or replying to a comment in the comment dialog, PageSeeder automatically saves your work as a draft after a few seconds of inactivity.
When the draft is auto-saved, 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
While edits automatically save as drafts, you must explicitly select Save to commit changes to the document. To prevent potential data loss from unexpected browser closures, save your work 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
As long as another user hasn’t 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.
When collaborating on documents, you might encounter situations where other users have created drafts but haven't saved their changes. PageSeeder provides tools to manage these situations effectively, allowing you to review, accept, or reject drafts from other contributors.
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.
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 to start editing, you can resolve the situation by accepting, rejecting or ignoring the draft.
To edit the fragment, click the
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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