Regular Pages:
Warning if the user tries to navigate away with unsaved pending changes/updates in a grid.
Popups:
It would be a good idea to have a confirmation OK/Cancel box when a user is about to close a popup with unsaved changes via "Close" or "X" buttons.
by: Existing V1 Request L. | over a year ago | User Interface
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It would also be nice if this came up when you click on a link that then tries to open in a window that you have unsaved changes in. That has bitten me many times.
Also, the ESC key will close a popup when the focus is on a drop list or text box and a confirmation is needed in this case as well.
I agree with Andre, but I'd also like for it not to reuse windows anyway. Especially one where I've altered information. There are many valid reasons to have two windows open simultaneously.
In addition, I have lost information several times because I was trying to cancel out of a the Owner field combo box's drop down (its confusing method of auto-complete is another issue and why I hit Escape), only to find that what I spent 20 minutes typing into the description is now gone because hitting Escape closed the entire window. If this were a dialog (which its apparently trying to mimic), the Escape key would only go to the focused control, not the dialog.
I would also like to see a warning when changing the page or a new popup is trying to be loaded.
A couple of examples:
I am editing the details in a popup, want to look at another item for more info and not thinking, click the link (vs mouseover) and now I have lost my changes.
Another is I am editing the details in a popup, I remember I want to grab something out of a discussion tthread to put into the description, and click the discussions link. Oops - loose my stuff.
Just a warning to cancel the navigation or similar would be great.
One of the biggest complaints I am getting from my team is the fact that VersionOne reuses the same popup window. They want the ability to see the details for more than one item side-by-side, for example, and are frustrated because VersionOne has no way to support it. The more serious issue is the potential for inadvertently losing data that has been entered because you wanted to jump to some other place in the application, but when you did so it reused the window you just used to enter your data. I have done this during a retrospective, taking notes, forgetting to hit Accept before I went to check the details of a story we were discussing, and losing half an hour's notes. Please, please fix this by first allowing multiple popup windows.
Yes, would like to see this feature.
Summary: DON'T LOSE MY DATA!!!
Steal some javascript code from Gmail. They do this well, preventing you from switching away from an email in-progress.
I just lost 30 minutes of work because of the window reuse problem. Ugh. Is there any way to turn that off? All I wanted to do was check the requirements on another backlog item while finishing up this one. So frustrating.
How about warning before deleting a conversation. I just accidentally clicked on the DELETE button when I meant to client on the X to close the conversation and WHAM - Gone!
rather than JUST preventing navigation (often when typing madly away, the navigation can be confirmed" even though still not desired)... a better approach is to ALSO preserve any dirtied fields (in a cookie perhaps), then if they are present when the item reloads, ask if the unsaved changes should be recovered, ideally showing any differences with the current fields.
Several teams are calling VersionOne cumbersome, we are still using old version "Summer '10", but the point is that real reason is that they loose data.
Proposed solution is to remove "Apply" button and let VersionOne save in background (ex. like google excel)
This wouldn't be such an issue if the Esc key handling wasn't broken. If you have another window focused with the V1 in your browser page directly beneath, pressing Esc to close the top level window will also cancel your V1 edits. All with a single key press. The oversight seems to be that V1 uses the KeyUp event rather than the normal KeyDown/KeyPress to process Esc. Esc key down closes the other form and key up cancels your V1 edits. Something to watch out for if you are loosing changes and don't know why.
Any update on this?! I just lost an hour of work AGAIN!!!
I am attempting to merge a few items together, so I have my one backlog item in edit mode with the others open in different windows. I hit Close on the item to get rid of, my screen in edit mode was hijacked by this close action. There was no warning that I'd lose all my work. Going to cry now.
Please please please. And please. This request is specific to warn before losing unsaved changes, but I will seek out the items that would allow me to have multiple items open side by side. Both of these are a royal pain in my productivity. :-)
I find most warning dialogs to be overdone, but when it saves you from losing valuable information and time it is a good thing.
Please add this functionality.
Essential.
This was implemented in the Fall 2015 release. The user will now get a warning if they try to navigate away from a page with unsaved changes. Additionally, the Save and Cancel buttons are now always visible in the grids, making the user aware that there are changes pending.
https://community.versionone.com/Release-Notes-and-Downloads/Fall_2015_Release_Notes#Miscellaneous
Thank you all for voting. Please keep the feedback coming.