Talking Drupal #434 - Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about te show itself. We’ll also cover
Autosave Form as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/434
Topics

Update on the show

Guest hosts

MOTW Correspondent

Newsletter



Sponsorship

Open Collective

Content

New content in 2024

Expanding team

Resources

Open Collective

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted an autosave feature on your Drupal
site’s forms, so content creators won’t lose their work if
they accidentally close the window or lose power? There’s a
module for that.



Module name/project name:

Autosave Form



Brief history

How old: created in Nov 2016 by Hristo Chonov of 1x
Internet, who is also one of the organizers of Drupal Dev
Days 2024 in Burgas

Versions available: 8.x-1.4 which works with Drupal 9 and
10



Maintainership

Actively maintained, most recent comment less than 3
months ago

Test coverage

38 open issues, 20 of which are bugs



Usage stats:

6,414 sites



Module features and usage

Works by automatically saving the content of the current
form every 60 seconds, though the time period is configurable

When a user opens a form, if an autosaved state exists
for that form a dialog will be shown asking if they want to
resume editing or discard any autosaved states

Once a form is submitted, any saved states will be
automatically deleted

Notionally it should work with both content entity forms
and config forms, but the majority of development and testing
has been with entity forms in mind

The project page also mentions an issue with nested
entity reference inline forms, and has links to relevant
Drupal core issues

Worth noting that this module uses AJAX to save the
states to the Drupal database, separate from entity revisions

If you want a solution that save form states into the
browser’s localStorage instead, you can check out the Save
Form State module, using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin