Oups yes seems this is not the correct board, sorry.

"A ticket comment"? This issue is about Confluence server...

This is not fixed, just lost a ticket comment after hitting "add link" and forgetting to submit !!!!

Our users are also distrustful of an automatic save and having a "safe draft" map would be helpful.

while the automatic draft save indeed is a nice feature, a lot of technical staff are used to hitting "ctrl/cmd+S" for saving every few seconds. So while I don't need a "save draft" button, it'd be great to map the shortcut to draft saving

The real issue here is that when you intentionally save it LEAVES editing mode. This is extremely undesirable.

Saving the draft is not same as saving the document. Two different features for two different needs.

You can even set the save draft time to a value you want (eg. 15 seconds). I remember this feature was introduced with 5.6 and has improved since then:

• Unsaved new pages are also saved as drafts in the user profile drafts page
• When you start editing, you are asked what you want to do, if a draft of the page exists
• Deleted pages/attachments are moved to a space paper bin and can be removed there by a space admin

Hello [malawrence],

Can you please tell us for which version saving edits automatically every 30 seconds is setup?

Regards,
Jelena

Confluence now saves edits automatically (every 30 seconds). Closing this ticket as it is no longer required.

Isn't this already implemented? By default Confluence saves drafts every 30 seconds, they are saved to each users drafts (Profile -> Drafts) on a per page base even for new, unsaved pages.

This is a feature I would dearly love. Makes for a broken editing experience, losing my train of thought, etc.

My life would be filled with unicorns and puppies if this feature was added.

But seriously... This would be extremely useful.

> Also it would be great to be able to hit 'e' key and the editor jumps to the same position you were when you were looking at the page in normal mode.

They just released this in 5.9.

11 years for such a triviality and counting. Where are the programmers? Did they fired them and hired sales and marketing instead? It can't go forever.

I can't understand why this feature has not been implemented. I hate to repeat whatever everyone has already pointed out but this is such a basic feature of any editor worth using. Come Atlassian team, let's get this done!

I strongly support this request! At least Ctrl-S should save the content without leaving the editor.

Autosaving is *_NOT _*the same thing. I got used to hit Ctrl-S every few minutes when writing anything in whatever tool. Getting thrown out of the Confluence editor is an annoying waste of time.

It would be great to save and continue. Also it would be great to be able to hit 'e' key and the editor jumps to the same position you were when you were looking at the page in normal mode

I would like the option for the explicit "Save and continue editing", without anything to do with the "drafts" system. I'm not interested in working with drafts. I just want to be able to hit Ctrl+S at times that I want (after completing some logical part of work), so that I would KNOW that it was SAVED, and that I might now just pull the power cord, figuratively speaking. At the same time I want to continue to the next logical part of the work, without needing to hit "Edit" again, and to find the place in the document I was at. It's the most basic workflow in working with Office documents, with code, so why not with Confluence pages? Currently my process is just that: from time to time I Save the page, and then I immediately Edit it again.

Actually, the button that says "Save" should not imply "Save and Close" at all (or, if it does, it should be called something else (Publish?)). It's a bit ridiculous to have "Save" and "Save and Do Not Close" buttons; it would be more logical to have "Save" and "Save And Close" buttons, isn't it?

This feature seems so basic and so demanded, and it was created more than ten years ago (!!), but still there are not much meaningful comments on it from Atlassian (i.e. regarding the issue itself, and not workarounds). That's a pity.

UPD: Well, actually I see that this is more correctly covered by CONF-8158, which is exactly in the same state - unresolved for 7 years.

What I want is to hit "Ctrl +S" and make sure everything is saved and go on writing my stuff

Same here. Just make Ctrl+S Save and Edit or save in background or whatever is needed.

I don't need to manage drafts.
I can always restrict viewing and editing before I want to make the page visible to others.
For us it is ok that you need to publish in order to save.

From UX point of view this is somewhat bad. I hit Ctrl + S to save my current written text and have to click again "edit" an position my cursor to the last position.

What I want is to hit "Ctrl +S" and make sure everything is saved and go on writing my stuff...

So I guess Confluence already does what users are asking for here

Nope. People are asking for a possibility to explicitly control the process of saving, which obviously is not the same thing as Confluence implicitly saving it at its own discretion.

is there any use case where an explicit "save draft" call makes sense?

As various people have outline above: Yes, there is.

My take on that:

A reasonable document editor should provide some "Save document, come back to it later" functionality. Every document editor on the desktop, from the last few decades, certainly did. And quite some current document editors in the web do so as well.

Confluence currently doesn't: I can "Save and publish document" (which has a an undesired "publish" in it), or I can "Cancel publishing, but rely on Confluence still having saved it, so I can return later.", which is weird, from an user experience point of view.

I was looking for the same function but found that Confluence auto-saves drafts anyway every 30 seconds. So I guess Confluence already does what users are asking for here - is there any use case where an explicit "save draft" call makes sense?

I would love it if Confluence had a button like "Save Draft" which would allow me to explicitly save a draft of the page and close the editor, so I could move on to something else without having to "cancel" my editing or navigate away from the edit page (which pops up the "are you sure you want to leave this page?" dialog.

It's just not realistic to expect every document to be written in its entirety from start to finish, and it's also not ideal to be publishing unfinished documents in many cases.

Thank you,
Marshall Stokes
Storymix Media

Yes, I know about it, but it not help in some cases.

It does not saves at period that maybe required for some important documents (where changes are "difficult" to reproduce and important). Moreover, you can make a very important changes for a few minutes and they are not saved as draft. But if manual save-draft option will exist, you just pressing some hotkey to save changes immediately after made them. You know when and what you want to save as draft, not just by timeout!

I Absolutely agree with you

But the truth is: when the browser/Computer crashes, the text goes to the drafts:
http://YOURCONFLUENCE/users/viewmydrafts.action

(Personal Menu at right top/Draft)

Best Regards: Peter

Why Atlassian ignores "Votes" of users for this ticket? Is it difficult just to add a button "Save Draft" near "Save" and make a HotKey (changeable by user) to save drafts by pressing some key on keyboard?
Why this ticket is and many other linked to it opened for 10 (TEN) YEARS?!
Are you serious, guys?
People are losing their text/requirements when browser is crashed or computer is switched off/etc.
But Atlassian just not adding a SIMPLEST solution - "[Save Draft]" button + HotKey. WHY?!

We use the HipChat plugin that posts pages to HipChat when they are created in Confluence - Not having the ability to properly create drafts for later publishing means that those pages are being posted to HipChat rooms when they are incomplete.

Also we have some templates we use that have user mentions on them so that when the template is completed those people are notified of the new page. This is also an issue as those people are notified before the page is ready to truly be published.

Seriously, a ticket to include baseline blogging functionality to the blog has been open for 10 years? Unbelievable.

I commented on CONF-8158 (repeating here just in case this gets looked at first):

As a new user, this is probably the thing that irritates me most about Confluence. Yes, I know it does periodic draft saves, but they don't always prevent me losing work. I've had the link appear telling me I have a more recent version saved as a draft and when I click on it it tells me it can't find the draft. I just want to be able to Ctrl+S and continue (or at least click "Save") without being chucked back to view mode, having to go back into edit mode and find the place I was working at. I can't think of any other editor I've used that didn't let me Ctrl+S and continue working. This is really off-putting. Do I really just have to suck this up?

Actually, it is more than a feature: the draft system is an essential part and there are obvious identified bugs. This is MAJOR. What's happening at Atlassian? Users are very clear in their request, and nothing is done. It is a shame that this ticket is still opened for almost 10 YEARS! There must be a typo or something else. I cannot believe such a lack of listening from Atlassian. You're better than that. It's easy:

• add a button "save and continue editing"
• if the user hits the "cancel" button, a message should prompt the user that he/she will loose all work since last save.
• I like the suggestion to change the name "save" to "publish". Much clearer.

This would be such an improvement. Please add this!

kyle9: You should still have your drafts in your Drafts screen, accessible from your user menu. (E.g. https://yourconfluence/users/viewmydrafts.action ). If they're not there, then they won't be in the database either. If you need any more assistance retrieving/locating them please ask on answers.atlassian.com or support.atlassian.com.

I just lost a few large "draft" documents because I was not aware of the issue with them disappearing if not Saved. Kinda sucks. Is there a way to recover these if we host the app using MySQL?

I use the workflow in K15t Versions add-on, so my workflow differs from stock Confluence.

One feature mentioned previously is already available in Confluence as Auto-save at a configurable interval. Another is available as Version History. And another is available a Watch (change notification.)

That said, workflow is a personal preference and should be configurable to a reasonable granularity. I would not use "Save and Continue Editing", but, for the sake of those who would, I think it's an important feature request to consider.

When I'm interrupted, I Save my work. Because Notify Watchers is enabled by default, my watchers are spammed with insignificant changes. Watchers should have the option to configure notifications as a digest.

If Confluence had a "Save as Draft" feature with a configurable option to create a numbered version or not, Notify Watchers or not, I might consider changing my current workflow.

Even just having a "close" button, which automatically saves a draft and a popup notification saying as much would be excellent. Then people can work on a page, maintaining a draft copy of it.

If someone edits a page and saves it in the mean-time, when the original user comes back to editing their page they should be notified that someone else has made a change, and see those inline with their own or in a side panel for comparison's sake, so they can integrate.

I've added a workaround to the description that you can hit Preview to save a draft, purely so that people are aware of the easiest way to save a draft as things stand.

Having an explicit/obvious "Save and Continue Editing" workflow is still a very important feature I believe we should implement.

How about adding a hover pop-up to the Cancel button so the user must hover, then navigate to the focused pop-up that reads "Yes" or "Confirm" or "Delete all Edits Since Last Save?"

+1

please please please make it easier to create/save/access drafts...

Would be very useful to have a "save as draft" option / "publish" could replace "save"? Any news or thoughts from Atlassian folk?...

thanks,
John

Please, let's have a real draft system with multiple drafts and ability to publish them. This is the most annoying thing in Confluence for me. I have to make drafts in personal space (or sometime outside Confluence), which is a pain, and even more when dealing with attachments and more.

This one seems to have gone quiet. Any more progress?

This would be really useful.

This would be a great feature - Confluence lets you create drafts, in fact, it auto drafts as time goes on.

Is this on Atlassian's radar? I noticed that the guy it's assigned to is, "Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues]" ....

Looking for this as well. Besides browser crashing I may edit a page over several hours (nature of the job). Save and Edit/continue would be used often.

We are in need of this feature.

This would be very great if it intorduced.All jira product customers feels quite comfortable.Hope Atlassian already started doing this

Not sure if this is implicit or not, but the same 'save as draft' features should also be available for news/blog posts as well....

Would be great feature!
We are using Confluence in project management (e.g. for keeping meeting minutes) and it would be great to work on meeting minutes without disturbing others with "incomplete versions". This applies to other user types too (e.g. editing a user guide chapter and having only structure ready I don't want users to see it).

Would a doc in draft mode keep it private from the organization until the author is ready to publish? If so, being able to explicitly save a doc as draft would allow you to work on your doc over time before having to make it available to everyone in the organization. This would improve user comfort levels with using confluence as a document editor.

This sounds mighty useful. Paranoia about browser crashes is far from unjustified these days.

OK, I figured out my assignment issue and have now effectively created a draft step at the very start of the worklow. To get around the component lead assignment taking effect, I just had to move the new assignment post function to the very top - The new assignment didn't work at the middle or the bottom of the list.

This is the number one feature request for our users as of now. We have very detailed requests that they want to draft, or just get ready, before they submit it to another team for action.

I have attempted adding a draft worklow step as the very first step of a workflow (actually renaming existing open step), but I can't get around the problem of the component selection causing the issue to be assigned to the component lead (which we want that feature for "non-draft" requests). The component lead assignment happens after the post actions, so apparently I'm stuck on developing a work around for the lack of feature.