How do I hold FORM DATA if user gets booted out of system..

[davidgordon]

Hi,

I have an intranet system I created in ASP.
A problem I seem to run into now and then is when users are seletcting
multiple lines of updates in a form, i.e.

They enter quanties, select items from dropdowns and then some script
adds this info to 1 line within a textarea field.
The user may enter any amount of lines of data to submit.

Because our intranet is hosted on our internal servers, sometimes our
router may go down, or they may get booted of the web page for some
other reason .... then .... obviously, all their form data is lost.

Is there any way to preserve this info, so that if they have to
re-login, they can just refresh the form with the last entered
info...i.e., is there an auto save facility within asp or some script
to hold the info as it is typed as an idea ?

Appreciate your help
David

[Brian Staff]

There is a method of saving/retrieving data locally on a machine without the
problems of security, but (I think) it only works in IE.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...r/behaviors/re
ference/behaviors/userdata.asp

Brian

[Patrice]

IMHO it would be better to secure those elements though you don't have to.
If you really want it depends what fails. You could do something server side
for example if this is a session expiration. You have also some capabilities
client side but this is likely browser specific (you have a persistance
"behavior" under IE, try to Google for this).

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Hi,

I have an intranet system I created in ASP.
A problem I seem to run into now and then is when users are seletcting
multiple lines of updates in a form, i.e.

They enter quanties, select items from dropdowns and then some script
adds this info to 1 line within a textarea field.
The user may enter any amount of lines of data to submit.

Because our intranet is hosted on our internal servers, sometimes our
router may go down, or they may get booted of the web page for some
other reason .... then .... obviously, all their form data is lost.

Is there any way to preserve this info, so that if they have to
re-login, they can just refresh the form with the last entered
info...i.e., is there an auto save facility within asp or some script
to hold the info as it is typed as an idea ?

Appreciate your help
David