New- Auto-Save Every 2 Minutes

This new feature is a “Behind the Scenes” function programmed with AJAX that will Auto-Save all of your article changes and updates once every two minutes.

This feature is enabled/disabled through your Account Preferences, when you log into your Membership Account. (**In order for this function to be available, and to work properly, you MUST have JavaScript enabled in your browser.)

How Does the Auto-Save Feature Work?

While it sounds easy, there are quite a few different ways that this works with both your New Article Submissions and Existing articles.

1. NEW ARTICLE - If you are creating a New Article Submission, once this feature is enabled your article will be saved to “draft” status after the first two minutes of typing. If you are still working on the same article after another 2 minutes goes by, your updates and changes will be saved, and a “Draft” will be created. All updates are saved to this same “Draft” file. This will continue every 2 minutes until you “Submit This Article” that will queue your article for Editorial Review.
   
   
2. INACTIVE/PROBLEM ARTICLE - These would be articles that you have already submitted to us, but have yet to go through the Editorial Review Process. If you choose to “Edit” your INACTIVE article, it will be placed in an “Auto-saved Draft” status until you choose to “Update This Article”.
   
   PLEASE NOTE: In order for the article to be placed back in queue for Editorial Review, you MUST select to “Update This Article” once you have opened it for editing. If you do not do this, the article will remain in the “Auto-saved Draft” status, waiting for you to re-submit your changes.
   
   
3. ACTIVE ARTICLE- These would be articles that have already gone through the Editorial Review process, and are live on our website. If you choose to “Edit” your ACTIVE article, it will be placed in an “Auto-saved Draft” status, REMOVING IT FROM LIVE STATUS, until you choose to “Update This Article”. Once you are ready to submit your changes you will select “Update This Article”, the article is then placed in queue for a Re-Review by our Editorial Team.
   
   PLEASE NOTE: Your article will remain INACTIVE until you select to “Update This Article”, and send the changes through for an Editorial Re-Review.

Important Things to Remember!

• Once the new Auto-Save feature is enabled, it is enabled for the entire account, and is not “per article” or “per edit”.
• Once you open a LIVE article to EDIT, it is removed from LIVE status, and is placed in a “Auto-Save Draft” status until you select “Update This Article”.
• You can toggle the Auto-Save on and off at the bottom of the article submission form at any time.
• Auto-Save will always apply changes to the current copy of your article. In the case of a New Submission, it will create a draft and continue saving to that copy up until submission.

PLEASE NOTE: While the “Auto-Save” function will save to your CURRENT copy, the “Save as Draft” button will create a duplicate copy of the article you are working on.

This article auto-save feature is *ON* by Default. You can disable it at any time with each article or you can disable it for all submissions in your Account Settings.

The objective of this feature is to help save original content by authors who may lose their Internet connection and/or close their browser before submitting a final article draft. Let us know what you think of it?

This feature took us (6) weeks of programming to deliver. It seems like such a simple function, but required 6 weeks to work the bugs out. Hope it saves some author frustration when writing articles within our article submission form (instead of copy and pasting from your text editor/word).

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on October 18, 2007 at 10:13 am

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6 Comments »

1

Albert Hallado writes:

Hi Chris,

Indeed it’s a very good feature, Once again congratulation. Man! EA is unstopable, renovating for expanssion and now adding more great features. you guys in the fast lane mode. More POWER Chris!

Thanks’
Albert Hallado

Comment provided October 18, 2007 at 11:22 am

2

Christina Sponias writes:

Hi Chris!

I copy and paste my articles because they are revised, but once I would submit an article and when I clicked the tab “submit this article” I saw a message saying that I had to log in again… because my page was opened for too long and when I decided to submit the article the time expired. So, I had to copy again everything from the beginning: the summary, the body, etc…

Is each submission (after the expiration time) going to be saved now thanks to your new system?

Comment provided October 18, 2007 at 11:58 am

3

Angela Chen Shui writes:

“The objective of this feature is to help save original content by authors who may lose their Internet connection and/or close their browser before submitting a final article draft.”

Excellent! This will take care of sudden power surges, cuts and ‘puter freezes….

Thanks for choosing to do this and for persevering through the six weeks of bug fix programming, Chris.

Comment provided October 18, 2007 at 1:20 pm

4

Lance Winslow writes:

This is great news for me personally, as I am traveling in my Motor Coach and have a Satellite Antenna, with the crazy weather we have been having often I get knocked off the Internet when a lightening rod crashes near me, or when the rain or sleet is coming down like a Tsunami from the sky. Also the high winds in this latest storm rock the antenna and occassionally I lose my signal from that also.

You have solved my problems, so now I will take my coffee break over at Stabucks.

Comment provided October 21, 2007 at 12:11 am

5

Aurelius Tjin writes:

That’s great news!

Thanks Chris.. :)

Comment provided October 22, 2007 at 2:33 am

6

Jeff Herring - The Article Guy writes:

Thank you for 6 weeks of hard work in order to set this up.

I’m sure my language will be much cleaner now than what sometimes leaks out when I lose an article I have been writing.

You folks are the best!

Jeff

Comment provided October 22, 2007 at 10:16 am

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