Moodle

Give users the ability to save draft versions of forum posts

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.2
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0.8
  • Component/s: HTML Editor
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

It would be great to be able to "save as draft" forum posts. Particularly helpful when composing long posts. User should be able to save when in the editor; if you come back to the post the saved content is there.

Issue Links

This issue will be resolved by:
MDL-18014 Automatically and periodically save WYSIWYG editor content as a draft/concept Major Open

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

This could surely be done in an AJAX-like way directly in the editor, so that the editor knew how to regularly post the content (every minute?) to a Moodle draft script with parameters (page path, editor element id)

Then, whenever an editor is loaded without content, the same plugin sends parameters to the draft script to fetch existing content (if there is any) and pre-populate the text with it.

The final component would be a cron job to clean up old drafts (older than 48 hours or so).

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - This could surely be done in an AJAX-like way directly in the editor, so that the editor knew how to regularly post the content (every minute?) to a Moodle draft script with parameters (page path, editor element id) Then, whenever an editor is loaded without content, the same plugin sends parameters to the draft script to fetch existing content (if there is any) and pre-populate the text with it. The final component would be a cron job to clean up old drafts (older than 48 hours or so).
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Leang Chumsoben added a comment -

so does this mean we can use this "Save as Draft" feature in Moodle 1.9.4?

i'm a bit confusing here, because i'm not pretty sure about the technical aspect.

so i would give a Plus to this feature request. i find it very difficult to write the long forum post.

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Leang Chumsoben added a comment - so does this mean we can use this "Save as Draft" feature in Moodle 1.9.4? i'm a bit confusing here, because i'm not pretty sure about the technical aspect. so i would give a Plus to this feature request. i find it very difficult to write the long forum post.
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eamon costello added a comment -

I would love this feature. Also (and apologies if this would be a whole new feature) would it be possible to create a post and have it published at some time in the future?

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eamon costello added a comment - I would love this feature. Also (and apologies if this would be a whole new feature) would it be possible to create a post and have it published at some time in the future?
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Oliver Webb added a comment -

This feature would be really useful, does anyone know when/if it will be available, and will it be available for Moodle 2.0?

Many thanks.

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Oliver Webb added a comment - This feature would be really useful, does anyone know when/if it will be available, and will it be available for Moodle 2.0? Many thanks.

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