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