User input task

Question

Hello, 
 In the "user input task" there is an option " Allow users to save a draft of in-progress tasks". 
 I'd like to know if there was a way to launch the save draft by the system, I mean if we can do the save without an user's action (click on the button or do the "ctrl+s" shortcut). 
 We need to be able to have kind of "auto save" of the current form. 
 Do you think that is possible ? 
 Thank you

Mike Schmitt · Answer

I don't know of any current way to do this.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Agreed, if the requirement is strong enough and a high level of effort is acceptable, you could perhaps set up a custom table just to hold temporary on-form values pertaining to a specific user (indexed to their Appian username for example), wherein you store a JSON-ized text string representing a CDT containing all data editable on that form (or if it's a massive amount, maybe individual fields instead). Then any time the user changes anything, the form could wrap that value back into the JSON string and instantly beam it back over to that table... and when a user loads the form in the first place, the table would be queried and checked to see if it already contains any value. 
 It should be underlined that this has nothing to do with the functionality found in the "save a draft" button provided by Appian - in fact I would suggest anyone going this route actually disable that button so as to not confuse matters more.