How to prompt users to save changes to layouts

Hi,
I am using WAD to develop planning layouts for BIIP.
I am curious as how to prompt the user to save the changes thay made to the data on the layout if they decide to navigate away from the page.
Any suggestions?
thank you
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AG

They can use Acrobat to save the form.
If they only have Adobe Reader, they need to Reader extend the form, to enable Adobe Reader to save the form with data.
Jasmin

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Any suggestions?
thank you

Hi AG
Did you find the place choosing the options? I didn't remenber them all, you can try to search these options.If you want to change the default value of this option, you can go to System Administration --> System Configuration --> Service Configuration --> Applications --> com.sap.portal.epcf.loader --> services --> epcfloader. Set the value of Workprotect.mode.default, which default is 1, and other three options are related to 2, 3, 4.
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Slava Natapov wrote:
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