Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I enabled Draft and Draft Views. I made a custom view and I love the module!
I do not have autosave enabled for any of my users.
But, I notice that I have several blank drafts in the draft list. That is, when I view the draft, the title and body are blank. I remember creating the nodes, but I did not use the draft option for those nodes.
I just tested it and it seems that the drafts are being autosaved, even though the option is turned off for the each user. I edited a story and kept the page open for a few minutes (which is not unusual). An entry was shown on the draft/list for the story. Viewing the draft shows a blank title and body, even though I was editing an existing story that had both.
Comments
Comment #1
Tally commented** Fixed title to more accurately describe what I am seeing **
Comment #2
darren.ferguson commentedThe reason for this is the module creates the empty draft immediately the first time.
It has to currently be this way because the form module does not like the idea of creating the draft id and posting the information and updating via Jquery on the fly.
Until this is addressed in the form api or drupal api which ever is causing the issue, i cannot do anything about it for the module.
Comment #3
giorgoskwhen I hit "save as draft" I can recover the draft exactly at the point where I saved it
but on the module page says
but I only get the behavior described in this issue
draft is saved only on the load of the edit form but its empty
no more saves occur after that if I don't hit the "save as draft" button ...
Is that how its supposed to work ?
is that a documentation issue ?
I've tested using Firefox 3.5 and IE7
Comment #4
giorgoskI think this is either a code bug or a documentation bug
Comment #5
darren.ferguson commentedThe autosave functionality is enabled on a per user basis and it is by default not enabled since too many ajax requests to the server might over load it since the full bootstrap even for ajax.
If you need to enable autosave you can go too the users account settings and under Draft Settings is enable autosave, check that and autosave will occur.
Comment #6
giorgoskGreat !! makes sense
Did not read the "readme.txt" and it was not apparent from the admin/settings/draft
maybe a note/warning on the top of page would help the next user !!
Comment #7
darren.ferguson commented