Save data without submitting form

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Fill out a form partially
2. Click 'Continue to review' but get a failure because not all data is valid 
(such as required fields are missing).
3. Close the form

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The form should be in my To Do list since the transaction is still on my step, 
with as much of the data entered as I have.  I'd like to be able to return and 
complete the form later. But when I retrieve from the To Do list, the form is 
empty as if I didn't enter any of the data fields.

Per a forum answer, the reason is that no data is saved unless it passes the 
data validation on the Review step, and since that's not happening, none of the 
data is saved for later.

Would like to have a Save button or other mechanism to save valid data without 
attempting to submit the form.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yoz...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2011 at 9:37

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This can be done already, but you need to submit the data using the 'Continue 
to review' button.  That's the one that submits the data for validation. Even 
though you will get errors on the invalid data, the data you entered will be 
saved so you can get it later.  You can just close the browser window/tab after 
you click on the 'Continue to review' button and pick it up via the To Do when 
you want.

The 'Return to document list' button is just navigation, basically saying you 
don't want to submit the data and want to return the list of documents. That 
seems like a step you wouldn't ever do except if you decide you want to abandon 
the transaction and delete from the document list page (that's where the 
'Delete this transaction' button is located).

So this request is being closed without any action being done as there appears 
to be no need for a Save button option.

Original comment by yoz...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2011 at 10:06

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