I am working on a blog that uses ~5000 nodes, mostly long texts (imported from blogger) that are being edited and updated using the builtin ckeditor5. The blog author has requested that I implement autosave for the node edit form.

I know of an autosave feature from the Ckeditor website, and when i search the backdrop core ckeditor5 module, i find the string:

    exports.Autosave = lv;

I don't know if it means that autosave is actually included, activated, usable, or not. I don't see any reference to it in the UI. So my question is, how do I activate autosave and use it in my site? 
 

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indigoxela's picture

Hi lloyddunn,

the important thing is: don't mix up CKEditor "autosave" (client side) and node save.

Node save means, that the current form gets validated and saved to the Backdrop database tables. That's server-side.

This isn't available in Backdrop core - you'd have to implement it on your own. For example periodically triggered by Javascript, which - on server side - get's the form contents, validates and saves them (using the save() method).

Or... you could help to finalize the port of the Autosave contrib module