Autosave function

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Dear support,

Is there a function in viktor to autosave a project every for example 30 minutes? A colleague of mine has lost his progress because of inactivity on the application. Ideal would be to create a new save that is overwritten every x minutes.

Ikbal

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Dear Ikbal,

Thank you for your question. Unfortunately, as far as I know this does not exist at the moment. You could create a feature request! In the meantime, the best would be to recommend your colleagues to use the save button more often.

I have never noticed this problem personally, in what situation did this occur? Is it possible they have put their laptop in sleep mode or something similar without saving? Or left a tab open for a long while (>1hr) without interacting at all?

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Indeed, my colleague went to have dinner, which took (I presume) longer than 1 hour. I have recommended him to save his project more often.

Thank you for your response.

Ikbal

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Hi Ikbal,

A nice way you can use the save button can be to save each time the user has performed a single action (for instance change the soil layout), similarly to you as a developer might think about a commit. That way the save history is very clear and you can easily revert single changes, which can be nice in case they made a mistake, or they changed their mind. This way of thinking will probably also increase the number of saves.

I hope this helps!
Paulien

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Hi Ikbal,

As Paulien mentioned there is currently no autosave functionality in the VIKTOR platform. However, this is a feature that we plan on adding to the platform in the future. The first step into this direction is a storage functionality that you can use in your apps to permanetly store data. We plan to release this feature end of March / beginning of April

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To update this topic:

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Request from several users from BAM stating that this is a big pain in user experience that they experience.

cc @Enrique

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This request is also coming from Terracon:

  • after the switch to sso, users are logged off automatically occasionally
  • with Microsoft software also coming with auto-save features more and more users are forgetting to “manually” do this regularly
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I Experience a lot of time, mainly in the morning after the first log on, that Viktor jumps back to the log in screen. Ruining all unsaved work. This is a mayor problem…

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Hi Johan,
good that you raise this again: we are looking into it.