AutoSave Functionality

Hi Everybody
I am working SAP ECC 5.0
I want to implement an AutoSave functionality for '<i>documents_todo.htm</i>' in BSP HAP_Document.
According to this functionality an employee has to fill his performance appraisal and during his filling tha page should automatically get saved after every 15 minutes.
Could somebody help me in this regard
TIA
Asad

Hi Frank, thanks for your reply.
the link you posted, isn't it contradicting to your team member's suggestion Yes, it is. I'm just searching for the right arguments pro and contra a autosave functionality. I dont think one can state that "autosave functionality enrich user experience".
... Here your user experience will drop massively if validation fails because the user did not know that what he/she typed in didn't meet the required data consistency policy It is not intended that a user does not know where something went wrong. Even after a "autosave" messages should inform the user whether the save is valid or invalid and if validation failes he should be informed where and why it went wrong.
... you should have a word with the team member about what the expected usability gain should be and how he/she feels about required data validation. The team member believes:
- applications would work better on tablets.
- it would be better for overall user experience.
- give an end user more freedom.
- there should be less required data.
My personal opinion is that I want to decide myself whenever I want to save a form and I dont want invalid data in the database. I'm just trying to see web applications from inside an end-users head and I'm not - like you guys - convinced that this is a kind of functionality that users are waiting for.
Koen

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Okay guys, it's time for an Autosave function.

Readers, post a short reply or something if you're with me on this.
Developers/Employees of Adobe, Listen up, seriously.
YOU NEED TO INCORPORATE AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE INTO ILLUSTRATOR.
No more excuses. I'm not concerned with degrading the performance of the software. Other programs have figured this out, you guys are way behind. I understand that Illustrator doesn't work the same way as Indesign; it's not essentially a visual representation of a database and therefore really quick to save. I understand that incorporating an autosave function would mean that I have to pause for a minute or so every so often. I don't care. Let me tell you what really eats my time, when your software crashes and I have no way of recovering anything. I might only remember to save twice a day, in which case I'm royally f****d. I suggest that you emulate Rhinoceros. You can set the interval between autosaves, and it automatically saves the file to a folder, replacing the previous autosave file each time. You can even turn it off. Come on guys, it's a no-brainer, and it will let me enjoy my years anneurism and conniption fit free. I mean it's embarrassing freaking out at your computer that hard, especially if you're working in a public place.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
and thank you,
Noah A. Modie

Oh, to be useful, such an option quickly save a PDF in the background without because then it would took too long.
History palette was also nice was that

Autosave functionality in peoplesoft

hi, i've placed an autosave code (which i've got in the internet) in an HTML area (property is constant) then when I access the page where the code has been included, I've encountered an IE error which states:
Char: 41
Error: Expected '{'
here's the code being used:
<script type="text/javascript">
pollingInterval = 5000;
threadLock = false;
saveMessage = "saved";
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != function()) {
window.onload = func();
else
window.onload = function()
oldonload();
func();
function timeoutHandler(){
clearTimeout(SaveTimeout);
SaveTimeout = setTimeout("autosave()",pollingInterval);
function autosave(){
var changes = checkFormChanged(document.%formname);
if (changes && !threadLock) {
threadLock = true;
if ("%page" == "EP_APPR_BASE1")
$('input[@name=ICAction]').attr({value: 'EP_BTN_LINK_WRK_EP_STORE_PB'});
else
$('input[@name=ICAction]').attr({value: 'EP_BTN_LINK_WRK_EP_STORE_PB$19$'});
update_defaults(document.%formname);
var params = $('form[@name=%formname]').fastSerialize();
$.ajax({ type: "POST",
url: $('form[@name=%formname]').attr("action"),
data: $.param( params ),
dataType: "xml",
success:
function(msg, msg2)
$('input[@name=ICChanged]').attr({value: '0'});
var searchFor = "'ICStateNum' value='";
var stateNumStart = msg.responseText.indexOf(searchFor) + searchFor.length;
var stateNumEnd = msg.responseText.indexOf("'", stateNumStart);
var newState = msg.responseText.substr(stateNumStart, stateNumEnd - stateNumStart);
$('input[@name=ICStateNum]').attr({value: newState});
display_notification();
SaveTimeout = setTimeout ( "autosave()", pollingInterval );
var SearchFor = null;
var stateNumStart = null;
var stateNumEnd = null;
threadLock = false;
else
SaveTimeout = setTimeout ( "autosave()", pollingInterval);
function display_notification(){
var topValue = window.pageYOffset;
if (! topValue )
topValue = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
if (! topValue )
topValue = document.body.scrollTop;
var topValue = topValue.toString() + "px";
notification.css({top: topValue});
$("body").append(notification);
notification.fadeIn("fast",
function(){
setTimeout("fade_notification()", 2000);
topValue = null;
function fade_notification(){
notification.fadeOut("slow",
function(){
notification.remove();
function start_autosave(){
if ("%PAGE" == "EP_APPR_MAIN1" || "%PAGE" == "EP_APPR_BASE1")
if ($('input[@name=ICChanged]').val() != 0){
SaveTimeout = setTimeout ( "autosave()", 1);
else
SaveTimeout = setTimeout ( "autosave()", pollingInterval );
$('body').keypress(timeoutHandler);
submitAction_%Formname = function(form, name){
form = $('form')[0];
$('body').css({cursor: "wait"});
function submit_the_form()
form.ICAction.value=name;
form.ICXPos.value=getScrollX();
form.ICYPos.value=getScrollY();
processing_%Formname(1,3000);
form.ICResubmit.value=nResubmit;
form.submit();
nResubmit++;
function check_for_lock()
if (threadLock){
setTimeout("submitAction_%Formname('" + %formname + "','" + name + "')",250);
else{
submit_the_form();
check_for_lock();
if ("%page" == "EP_APPR_MAIN1" || "%page" == "EP_APPR_BASE1")
addLoadEvent(start_autosave);
</script>
thanks....

i guess you are trying to use ERMS(email reponse management system in CRM) either support desk or help desk.
u need to configure a whole setup in order to make this functionality work.
please make clear whether this is the one you are trying to achieve.
ERMS functionality in short: it has all mail box servers in place. once the mail comes from a user to a mail box, based on content and information the email is routed back to respective mailing list. the person picks the mail and replies back to the mail box which routes back to the user requested.
it uses process schedulers,IB gateways, nodes,SMTP servers to do the job.
Thnks!

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Thank you for your time
MM
PS I just found an entry from 2006 that does not answer the question but suggest to have this feature in the "wish List"!
I think I'm going to redo my menu!

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I noticed whilst burning with imgburn there are a lot write Retries (440, and I'm barely 2% complete. I must admit I have no idea how all this works - I can see the buffer at 100% and the device buffer line flicking to 100%
I just lowered the writing speed that was X8 down to X2 (here we are at 3% with 550 write retries).
I was quite hopeful with the setting to DL 50GB that should have been the problem.But!
According to imgburn, the source shows 35316,957,184 bytes so it should fit onto 50gb.
I know all this is very complex and I'm not up to it to understand the whole process - yet knowing I have had one successful burn and in the past I had not trouble with DVD burning - I should get somewhere!
Searching more for an answer I found a 2009 post that talks about BD DL and suggests each layer will only take 25 gb and therefore we should try to have two parts no more than 25 gb in the project to burn on a 50gb DL BD? Have you heard of such thing?
Well It's almost 7hours and the burning is 96% - Since I have no changed anything I don't expect too much about this session.
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Is there a way of getting my Air client to autosave?

Hi,
we have developed an Air application and want to add autosave functionality.
Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a Cron function?

Maybe use a timer. Here is a link to an article discussing timers and the enter_frame event:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/mobile/WS4bebcd66a74275c36cfb8137124318eebc6-7ffb.html

Adobe 9 Pro crashing in Win7 x64 - and Autosave

I've searched all through the internet and these forums (which do have good info), although I have not found a solution to my problem.
We have a small office of 10 computers with Windows 7 Professional 64bit (on win2008 server domain) each with Adobe 9 professional (all updates and patches installed).
For the most part everything runs smoothly and great, but every so often ( a few times per week) Adobe will crash while working on a large PDF (100 or more pages, with bookmarks, highlighting, etc.) and the user will lose the document they were working on unless it had been recently saved. The crashes are so intermittent and unusual, I'm not concerned with that at the moment... there appears to be no common denomenator in the crash happenings.
What I am interested in is a better Auto-save feature or way to more fully restore Auto-save data files.I've changed autosave to happen every 10, 5, even 1 minutes, but although after the crash happens, Adobe recognizes the autosave and tries to open it, the document is corrupted and of no use, having lost a great deal of information in the original PDF. So, I'm telling my users to constantly click "Save" or Ctrl-S.
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Issues between SharePoint 2010 == Acrobat X Pro and autosave

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#1
Crashing Acrobat X Pro not autosaving correctly when dealing with partially remote user profiles. These are user profiles that are local (not roaming profiles), but are forced via registry to consider the Documents location to be a network location (accessible via CIFS). I noticed when helping a user that has lost work that the temporary autosave files are still local, and there did not seem to be a recovered document via Acrobat for this SharePoint-loaded PDF file. The user had this file checked out and had done a few hours of work when the crash happened. Any recommendation on:
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#2
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When typing an email, a draft autosave feature locks up my wife's computer. Can it be disabled?

My wife has a desktop computer using XP and Firefox as a browser. The machine seems to lock up for several minutes when "autosave" functions to save the email as a draft. This happens while typing data. In other words, she is not asking for the document to be saved. I don't find anything about this under "options", so I don't know how to disable the function.

The problem is that all services are bundled with your Apple ID ([email protected]):
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and
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FCP 'autosaving' project while Compressor rendering?

A 90 minute docu. Thirty hours of rendering. I just noticed FCP 'autosaving' the project file. Which took a long few minutes. Now Compressor is going again ... but there seems to be no diminishment of the 'remaining time' in the History window. I can't tell whether Compressor is stalled or not. I can hear the computer occasionally working.
Could the FCP 'autosaving' have frozen Compressor somehow? Though there is no spinning beach ball. I realise I should have turned off the 'autosave' function in FCP ... but never have before, and never had Compressor SEEM to stop before.
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Thank you Alberto,
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Autosave - Android Adobe Reader

I have a form that I have created that I require our technicians to fill out when they are on a job remotely from their android tablet which then get submitted to a designated email. (This I have achieved successfully). The technicians have the file saved on their tablets.
Everytime the form is filled out on the tablet and submitted it stays filled out. Is there a way of making it a template or read only so everytime the file is opened it is still the blank form?
I think it may be something as simple as an autosave function in the android version of adobe reader, can this be truned off???

Hi Kamal,
Please feel free to submit your request via this forum: Community: Acrobat Feature Requests | Adobe Community
Best,
Sara

Plugin or action to Autosave or Auto-Recover files??

I know Adobe hasn't seen fit to include an autosave function in any version of Photoshop. I consider that the height of arrogance and stupidity. Some will argue the time it takes to auto-save files doesn't justify it's inclusion. The time and effort in creating the work is equal justification for such a feature. Why should I have to remember to save every 10 minutes or so when I have no idea when the silly program will suddenly crash on me for no good or explained reason? Why should I be put through that kind of stress that will affect my creative workflow?
As an alternative it would be helpful to find some third party software, plugin that would do the same thing. It would be good if it could be set to a timed response. An action might do it but it still require manual activation. Perhaps someone knows of a script that could be written? Any ideas or suggestions other than "tough it out" and "you can't do that, too bad" would be appreciated.

Control-S is not a plug-in and not a script.
Of course it is not. I was taking a bit of a license there. However, it is the answer to the problem, is it not? It's simple, fast, and you know that you will have an interruption, when you invoke it, so you can pause, and not get caught in the middle of an intricate Selection, or some other operation, where you might, in fact, loose all of the work/time that you have invested.
That is why Adobe has chosen (for all these years) to not implement an AutoSave.
As the program can never be sure when you are done working on something, or are just relaxing your hold on your stylus, it would never know when it was "safe" to AutoSave. Some of my Selections take hours to create. I'd hate to loose them, because I was not done yet, and the AutoSave kicked in during that Selection, only saving part of it.
For tiny, simple images, it'd not likely be a problem. Some would likely benefit. I'd have it disabled most of the time.
As I pointed out, there are major differences to what is being AutoSaved, between Premiere and Photoshop. Still, many editors turn AutoSave off, because the every 5 minute (default time) pause disrupts their workflow. Even on my very fast, robust workstation, a Save can take 30 sec. on some of the images.
No, the manual use of Ctrl-s is the answer. Every NLE users learns this, even with AutoSave. Well-timed Save_As operations can be a blessing too. Nearly every PS user knows about Crtl-s and most incorporate it into their workflow.
Sorry the the humor did not work. I will do better in the future.
Hunt

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I have a project that I am working on in Acrobat and have the Autosave function set to 5 min. I don't know what happened, but Acrobat just blinked and went away. I have tried everything that I can find in the help file and on the web, but I cannot seem to access, find or restore anything from the"Autosave" files. the help file says to simply open acrobat or the file and select which file to go back to...I never get this option and have no idea where to find it.
If I don't recover this data I will have lost 12 hours of work....I would rather not have to stay up all night to make up for the time.
I am very new to Acrobat and this is probably a simple thing...but what am I missing???
thank you in advance for your help.

Any chance you have a backup from Dropbox or local backup software? If so, you could retrieve a version before the crash.
Is the file .ai or .pdf? Have you tried opening in Acrobat? If .ai, I would try duplicating file and changing extension to .pdf and see if Acrobat opens it.
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Hello,
I started an animation in flash recently and the autosave feature was turned on. I had a good animation, but decided to play around with it a bit. After a little while, I decided to call it a night and exited the program making sure NOT to save my work. Upon opening that file the next time, I come to find out that Flash has autosaved my file while I was playing around. Now I have a worthless animation, and have to start from scratch. Is there any way to revert to a previous save, or autosave at this point, or am I about to do a lot of work again?
Thanks anyone who can help.

As far as I know, the autosave function isn't able to track down previous versions of the saved document - that calls for a specified version control system. I believe that Flash only saves the file if it is told to. There is a few ways to enable or disable autosave:
in the "New Document" dialog. you can choose to enable Auto-Save.
In the "Document properties" dialog you can set the checkmark.
If these are checked of, there isn't going to happen any auto saving. The problem may be, that there is also a topic called Auto-Recovery. Recovery and Save isn't the same when it comes to Flash, but people tend to think of them as the same. You set the Auto-Recovery feature in the Preferences under General.
Windows: Edit>Preferences : General>Auto-Recovery
Mac OS: Flash Professional>Preferences : General>Auto-Recovery
Both has a default of 10 minutes, and can therefore confuse he user. Please look at the document to make sure, that you haven't unset Auto-Recovery instead of Auto-Save. you can do that by:
Go to the preferences (Ctrl+U on Windows and Command+U on Mac OS) and check to see if Auto-Recovery is set.
Go to the documents properties (Ctrl+J on Windows and Command+J on Mac OS) and check to see if Auto-Save is set.
The first one (in the preferences) is ok to have set. It is the second one, that may have caused trouble for you.
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