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A way to continue a long form after timing out; a resume button on iPad start page #117

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
On a customer's store iPads, each iPad has a Start page (not in the 
application) that shows the transactions they have permission to run. A new 
form is very long, a survey of store equipment, and it's done once a week. The 
manager sometimes takes a day to do it, stopping and starting for each 
category. The form often times out and they can't back into it again. A To Do 
page like their Start page and a configurable "Save" button would be useful.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lstro...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2013 at 5:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There's no "resume" concept, but we can certainly build a To Do page like we 
did for the Start page for those who cannot use the regular application.

If the user clicks the Continue button on the page when they want to submit 
their data (just don't do the final Submit, which assuming there are data 
validations, would only be allowed after they completed everything on the page 
anyway), it will be saved and they can then close the browser window and use 
the To Do page to pick it back up.  Of course, this will only work for users 
with a login.  

For all others, just clicking on the party's unique link to the transaction (or 
bookmarking the page) will allow that party to return to complete it later or 
just see whatever they did complete.

This is actually two requests (a To Do page, and a configurable Save button), 
and we'll only consider the To Do page here and the Save button will not be 
done.  If you really need to add a Save button next to the Continue button, 
please create another issue for just that feature as it seems less commonly 
useful.

It's generally better to split your long document (takes a long time to fill 
out) into manageable pieces (either via multiple pages or multiple documents).

Original comment by yoz...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2013 at 5:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
After discussions with the prospect who needs this, adding the "To Do" 
transactions at the top of the start page so they see already started work 
before they go to start again.

Original comment by yoz...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2013 at 8:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Added to the production To Do listing to the top of the 'start' page for 
non-Web2.0 users.  Note that while some use this for a iPhone/iPad, it's not 
required because the application should work fine on an iPad (the iPhone works, 
too, but it's pretty darned small!).

This is in the 13.10.5 release.

Original comment by yoz...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2013 at 11:32