A Multitude of Save buttons!

[Joss]

I like the save button! It is a nice positive button with some pretty solid features that has got me out or trouble lots of times....

But I am wondering whether it is a bit lonely and could do with some bed-fellows?

I am thinking of these few cousins:

• Save and Close (returns you to the page list, field list ,,,)
  
• Save and New (Saves the current doc and creates a new one of the same type - child of the same parent, for instance, with the same template enabled)
  
• Duplicate - literally creates a new whatever with everything the same, including the content. Very useful in SEO heavy sites where you want lots of similar pages with just some localisation changes.
  
• Cancel - closes without saving, maybe with an alert.
  

This is a bit of a Joomla inspired list, but it can really speed things up when getting down to the content filling bit of a site, or mass producing fields.

Display wise, I would suggest a button dropdown, like you can create thanks to those nice people at Bootstrap

So, you would still have your sweet little save button, but with a down arrow next to it that revealed the other options, rather than have a long list of buttons.

This has probably been suggested loads of times before, but I thought I would just nudge it into the list, just in case.

Joss

[Nico Knoll]

+1

[onjegolders]

+1, think this has been mentioned a few times, would help with the workflow (only saves a few seconds each time but it adds up)

[Nico Knoll]

Maybe you could just "hook" the button so that you could expand it with custom modules.

[Adam Kiss]

Maybe you could just "hook" the button so that you could expand it with custom modules.

...and that would be the way to do it. Or maybe configurable palette of buttons, but I for one (for instance) don't want to have four buttons on my edit page.

[Joss]

but I for one (for instance) don't want to have four buttons on my edit page.

And that would be why I said to make it a drop down with the additional options. These are functions that I have found very useful with all kinds of systems when you are having to create a lot of data.

[thistimj]

A Save and New button would be great.

[Martijn Geerts]

Maybe next to the save button a create sibling after save checkbox that remembers your last choice.

[Adam Kiss]

And that would be why I said to make it a drop down with the additional options. These are functions that I have found very useful with all kinds of systems when you are having to create a lot of data.

Yeah, that was more for the +1ers, not for you

[Joss]

Oh, okay.

I hate internet communications sometimes (well, a lot of the time.) So ambiguous and messy. It will never replace talking!

[Adam Kiss]

Oh, nevermind that. Reasonable people always come to understanding, even though it might be harder on the internet sometimes.

[nik]

I like the save button! It is a nice positive button with some pretty solid features that has got me out or trouble lots of times....

But I am wondering whether it is a bit lonely and could do with some bed-fellows?

Sorry Joss, I was out of actual buttons, but I implemented something else that might interest you as well. See http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2369-module-pageeditredirects/.

Your post reminded me of a much older thread I once read (adam was actually involved with this back then) and there I found another way to accomplish the same kind of functionality. Maybe that could evolve into something useful even.

[dotnetic]

+1 for that feature. Take a look at modx, they implemented it this way.

[Soma]

The feature is already there. Look niks post. ;-)

[bernhard]

i've implemented something like that today (alpha): https://processwire.com/talk/topic/11810-savebuttonenhanced