"Save vs AutoSave" dialogs - Issue in Backup and Restore settings page

[HawkXP71 138]

Many dialogs save immediately on change, while others require a click of the save button.

Personally, I hate "auto save" when there is NO notification that the save was done, but that is a personal view.

My concern is the inconsistency, but even more so, no dialog that has unsaved data should ever let you leave without a confirmation.

Where I hit this today, was in the Backup & Restore.

I changed the location where my backups go on my server.  On my dev box, I will every once in a while reset my local system to a backup of my main server.

When running my dev server, I went to change the location then I clicked restore.  It was showing way out of date backups.  It took me a bit (early morning no coffee yet) to realize, I had to hit save on the new backup location in order for the restore to use the new location.

I would suggest, either make it autosave like other dialogs, or use the unsaved value when restore is clicked, or warn the user "unsaved data"

TIA

 

[TMCsw 317]

I thought about this long ago and every once and it comes back to kick me in the butt. I was going to make a similar FR for this, but on second thought, it is actually a deficiency rather than an FR or bug.

I can’t think of any other software that I currently use that has this same behaviour. It’s been pretty much a software standard for decades now that settings are either auto-saved or the user is prompted on what to do if they try to leave a settings page with unsaved changes!

[Luke 43516]

Hi, ideally we’d like to auto save everywhere since that’s how most software works nowadays but there are some screens where that just isn’t feasible.

[ebr 17004]

But in those situations, we should warn you before exiting the page without saving any changes you made.