Re: First time Glom usage + database question.

["Arq. Maximiliano" Meilán <meilan adinet com uy>]

Agree with Murray, remember I asked the same question, but after work a
little with Glom, I find automatic save is a good choise. (undo is the
only thing I miss)
What about an automatic backup of the entire session?




El mié, 10-06-2009 a las 12:09 +0200, Murray Cumming escribió:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:57 +0200, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> > Regarding the use case of saving data:
> >
> > That's what confused me as well when I started to work with Glom. You
> > somehow expect the edit/undo/save/load paradigm (is there a better name
> > for that?). Well, since undo and save are missing perhaps one could wrap
> > everything into (database) transactions that get applied when you change
> > windows (or when you click "apply changes"). That would allow undos and
> > perhaps be more fitting to what the user expects?
> >
> > Another possibility could be a flag for each row (in list view)
> > indicating whether the data in that row is still in a dirty state or
> > whether it was already made persistent. Or use a signal color (yellow,
> > red, ...) for the cell background while editing in the details view,
> > hinting at how the data is only made persistent after finishing editing
> > a cell. The color semantics (for a cell) could then be:
> > * white or blue background: persistent data
> > * red or yellow background: dirty data
>
> This all seems too much like confronting the user with technical stuff
> that he doesn't care about. There's also the risk that data would be
> lost, or not visible to other users yet, if the user does not do the
> step to actually save the data, though a timeout could help slightly.
>
> There's also the problem that various features would not work if the
> data is not really there - such as lookups and related records and
> related fields. Avoiding problems with that would add more UI
> complication and points of failure.
>
> I am fairly happy about the instant saving because it's exactly what
> FileMaker does.
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