[Building Sakai] autosave

[Zhen Qian]

That's great, Chuck. Thanks for you effort.

Will you start with an umbrella jira that covers the process for various tools? I especially look forward to seeing the add-ons to Assignment tool :)

- Zhen
On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Charles Hedrick wrote:

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> On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Zhen Qian wrote:
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>> Chuck,
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>> I think it has long been a desired feature. 
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>> It should be easy to import into Assignment, since it has "save draft" action in place, for both assignment and assignment submission objects.
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>> Announcement is tricky, since draft announcement is the one with open date in the future. 
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> I see that. It's particularly tricky if you're editing an existing announcement, since you need to save the draft but not publish it.
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>> Not sure about Resource tool, since it has different workflows for different resource types.
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> That will have the same issue if the document exists.
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> Yes, I being to see the issues. I'd still like to do something if we can.
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>> Thanks,
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>> - Zhen
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>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
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>>> A couple of years ago we did autosave for tests and quizzes. It's helped a lot with students losing work. However there are lots of other tools, many of which would be more directed at instructors.
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>>> How would you feel about trying to do a few of the more used tools for 2.10? Announcements, assignments, page editing in resources?
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>>> It's actually fairly easy. The Javascript used for Samigo should work with minor changes. The main thing is that there needs to be a "save draft" function that the Javascript can submit to.
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