ENH: Add "Unsaved Data" warning message

For sake of discussion, I'll describe as pertains to Test Cases:
- The "Save" button in the header only pertains to the TC-level metadata
- Individual steps are saved using their step-level "Update" button

It's not an uncommon usability gripe for my users to be actively entering data in a particular Test Step, then move to modify the TC-level metadata without first hitting "update" on the step, and click "Save" on the Test Case. This order of operations results in the step-level changes to be discarded. I'd like to see more graceful handing along the lines of "Unsaved Data on this page - do you really want to leave?" to prevent unnecessary loss of unsaved data-entry work.

2 Replies

David Brizell

re: Julie Robertson on Friday, January 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

This is something that we've come across too and often results in loss of work

Adam S

re: David Brizell on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

This will be addressed in our v4.0 release as part of an update the entire page saving infrastructure.

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