In this episode of Tech Tuesday, Harley Wolfarth covers the new draft autosave feature included in the WYSIWYG page and email editor in DeltaNET 6.

Welcome to another edition of Tech Tuesday presented by Delta Media Group, where we put the SAN into hand sanitizer. SAN being like a network storage device. It's storage area. You know what? Never mind. Today we are going to take a look at a new feature that we just released that has been something that only recently became available to us. That's why it took us so long to add it. It's something that people have been asking for for a long time.

What this is basically a save functionality or like an autosave functionality that's built into all the WYSIWYG editors on the website. Now those are the editors, the page editors that you use to create custom pages or to do like the paragraph about you, your homepage, bio stuff. They also do a lot of the emails. If you go into create something, if for some reason you have to leave the page or you fall off the page or whatever, you could still get your content back.

I know there are a lot of situations where we've had even internally where we'll be in there and we'll be creating content in one of these editors and say somebody comes to your desk or the phone rings or something along those lines and you end up getting distracted, you move away from it and then by the time you go back in you see that either you close the tab by accident or you were logged out because you hit the time limit, something along those lines and you've lost all your content and now because you didn't save that you have to start over from scratch. No more.

To see how this works, I'm just going to pick an editor in here. We'll use the one that I think I've heard probably the most issues with. I'm going to go down to Customers and I'm going to go to Email Blasts. Now, this same editor is the one that's used in the different emails throughout the system. Just anything that uses this, this WYSIWYG editor is what I'm talking about. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to make some content. This is my page content. It would be ... I know this isn't very interesting for you right this minute. We need to have a fair amount of content in here, otherwise, this isn't going to be a very impressive demonstration.

Let's see. Or, to distract me I might close my window. Oh look, I need to open another tab, put three dots there, make it just make it really fill out. There we go. We have some content here. I'm going to go ahead and open another tab because why not? We'll say that somebody came in, I need to go to Google and I need to research some things or do some things or the phone rang and I'm on a call for a while and then maybe as I'm going around my browser do different things, I go in and I close the window. Now, you can see my tab with the DeltaNet in it is gone.

Now I'm going to go back to the DeltaNet. Now I'm already logged in because it hasn't been more than the 25 minutes, but we'll say that I've gotten logged out. Why not? I'll sign out, now I'm off the page. I'm completely signed out of the DeltaNet. I'm going to log back in. There we go and go back into the same user I was in from before. Here we are. So, we'll say that I had just logged back in. Now if you would just log back in, it would probably take you here to this page, just actually probably take you to the welcome page or the dashboard page, just depends on how your company has things set up.

But now that I'm back in, I'm going to try to recover my last email blasts. I'm going to go back to Customers and down to Email Blasts. We'll go down here, we'll see my contents missing, but I'm going to click on this and there we go. Here's the last set of content I had here just like I never went away. All I had to do is click this button right here and you can see it. We're turning back the clock.

What it's doing is basically it's actively saving the history or actively saving my content as I type. Then when I go back in, I can just hit this button to pull that content back up. Because it's saving it in my local storage on my machine it still exists even though I got logged out of the website. Now you can see that, despite any problems you've had in the past where you go in, you create a bunch of content and you lose it, this should save everything that you put into the editor. All of the content you created here should still be in place.

We're hoping this one's going to be a huge step, a relatively small feature, but a huge step toward making the DeltaNet that much more usable and that much easier to use. As always, thanks a lot for joining me this week for Tech Tuesday. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send an email into support@deltagroup.com or give us a call and we can walk you through this feature or any other feature you'd like. Thanks a lot.