Auto-Save disable or Undo

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
March 8, 2011
35 replies
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It would be nice to disable the auto-save feature or at least have an undo. The issue is 2 fold.

1. It makes the process of updating much longer. For instance, when updating the settings section in an email. After clicking operational email it saves, then clicking include webpage link it saves, after updating the email address it saves, after updating send name it saves. Thus, making a 5 second task 45+ seconds.

2. The real issue arises when updating emails, forms etc. Recently our collateral designer created an email. He unknowingly had two windows open to the same email. After completing the email in one window, it saved. Later, he was going through his open windows and came across the second window he had opened to the previously completed email. The blank email then auto saved when he clicked on it. His completed email was over written by the blank email. Since, the email had never been approved all work was lost.

Marketo

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gauravgulatigg

New Participant

There must be an undo button or option to make it auto save for your specific EDM or there must be an option to toggle and keep the EDM in the read only status.

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kh-lschutte

New Participant

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bamukher

Employee

Hello all, I have been championing remove auto-save or add undo feature internally and other PMs agree it is a good feature. However, the reality is that it has been assessed and found to be a massive undertaking. The development effort would eclipse all the other priorities we're working on, so I have updated the status to reflect this. Just want to be upfront with you. We have to look for other ways to deal with some of the symptoms that cause you headaches, for example, the slow performance of auto-save. Thanks.

Nathan_Hunter

New Participant

Voted for. It's possible to use the audit trail to determine what occurred and 'undo' the changes, but that's not as simply as an undo tool.

I agree with @Mark Farnell, the ability to toggle auto-save on/off might be useful. When building longer flows, particularly those with repetitive steps, it's tedious waiting for auto-save to catch-up. Even worse when it doesn't and you have to start again.

Gina_Powers

New Participant

It would be great if the email could be locked from opening in multiple windows - almost a check in/ check out kind of process. If one person is editing, someone else (including me) ccannot open it.

Paul_Johnson

New Participant

I love the undo part rather than the turn off autosave. To be able to go back and see revisions and the option to select to go back to one of the revisions would be amazing.

Mark_Farnell

New Participant

I would like to be able toggle whether auto-save was on or off, and maybe specifiy the time period before auto-save, generally we find it more useful to be on, but it does slow users down as it is. An undo would be very useful, as would a recycle bin ;-).

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Anonymous

I'd love at least to undo the last save. I once selected a field and someone pressed my keyboard and got into a mess. Instead of looking what the field had in the logs, a simple undo would be perfect.