Improve Cornerstone timeout management

[thisisbbc]

Hello there,

Recently came across a small issue in all my stupidity but felt like it could be something to be improved.

I was working on a page, left it open all night without saving and came back to the office to see I had been logged out after my session timed out.

I logged in again on another tab and wanted to hit “Save” on the page I had been working on but got the dreadful “Uh oh! Failed to save content.” error.

Figured maybe I could save the page as a template instead but still got the same error.

With Visual Composer, when something like that happened I could often revert the builder to the Text/Code display, just copy everything, refresh the page and paste the changes again.

It would be great if Cornerstone had somehow an auto-save for unpublished changes so that if your session times out you can reload the page and you’d see something like a nag saying “A more recent version of this page with unpublished changes was automatically saved, do you want to restore last version?”.

In the meantime is there any chance I can save this timed-out page or do I have to recreate it?

Thank you for the help/consideration!

[friech]

Hi @thisisbbc,

We are sorry for the experience you had. This might be caused by several reasons which can vary from 3rd party plugin conflicts to services like Cloudflare which minify the assets of the Cornerstone, could it be a browser setting. We could not account for every possible situation so it’s very important to always save your work.

I’ve added this as a feature request so it can be taken into consideration for future development, our Dev Team might able to add autosave features in the future. All of these items are discussed with our team internally and prioritized based on the amount of interest a particular feature might receive

I the meantime, there is nothing we can do but to recreate what you’ve done.

Thank you for understanding,