On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Aris Feryanto <aris_feryanto@yahoo.com> wrote:

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From: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info>

Le 2011-07-22 10:11, Aris Feryanto a écrit :

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From: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info>

Le 2011-07-22 09:16, Aris Feryanto a écrit :

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From: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info>

Also, if we compare with a spreadsheet program, saving is not done

when exiting a cell, it's done by an explicit click (for example on

a Disk button). The user might want to change many columns before

saving.

Great. I think it's good to have the feature to save all edited

columns at once.

So you'll change the interface to avoid auto-saving after clicking

outside of the modified cell?

I'll try to provide these two options for the user to choose:
- auto-save (with/without confirmation)
- save all edited cells at once

I've used an AJAX-enabled application in a similar way (I was selecting from a dropbox) and waiting for the application to update after each selection was slow and frustrating. However, I also just used a different application where I spent a few minutes trying to figure out why my changes weren't being saved. There's a tiny Save button in the corner.

Anyway, the point is that I like giving the user the power to chose. I thought about it and think I'd prefer to see the choice as a checkbox near the top of the results; it wouldn't make sense to put it as a config.inc.php setting because I'd want to change it depending on the type of fields I'm editing.