0004520: Form information lost on submit - MantisBT - Signup temporarily disabled due to spam

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004520	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2004-09-10 15:18	2004-11-06 06:01

Reporter	Ornithopter	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	git trunk

Summary	0004520: Form information lost on submit
Description	If you report a bug and miss a required field and/or enter incorrect data into a validated custom field you get redirected to an error page. If you hit the back button, you lose all the info you just entered.
Additional Information	This is only an issue in IE. Firefox automagically saves all your form info. Since 96% of the internet uses IE, I think this is an error worth fixing.
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Ornithopter 2004-09-12 21:22 reporter ~0007532	A quick work around / solution (depending on how anal you are) can be found at: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/cookie-form-saver.html It took me less than 20 minutes to get the form saving to work with minor adjustments to the html_api. I made adjustments so that I could pass in the required 'onload' and 'onunload' event hanlers: html_page_top2("onload=\"cookieForms('open', 'report_bug_form')\" onunload=\"cookieForms('save', 'report_bug_form')\""); html_page_top2a($p_body_options) function html_body_begin($p_body_options) { echo "<body $p_body_options>", "\n"; } Other than that, one line was added in bug_report_page.php: Line 91 added: <script language="javascript" src="javascript/form_saver.js"></script> form_saver.js is just a copy and paste from the site above. It seems to work for me, so I thought I'd share the solution.

Ornithopter 2004-09-12 21:29 reporter ~0007533	Just a quick addition. If you use the above solution, add a defualt value such as $p_body_options='' for each function otherwise you will get warnings when other pages attempt to use this method without passing it a parameter. Cheers.

Matt_wc 2004-09-12 21:32 reporter ~0007534	We have had issues with this as well. Would really like to see this addressed.

TomR 2004-09-13 15:22 reporter ~0007553	Duplicate of 0003729? I also consider this a (big) issue. I would save al lot of time not to re-enter everthing.

jjester 2004-09-23 09:56 reporter ~0007711	This issue affecs us as well. While i use mozilla and generally can recover my form data on submission, others are IE crippled and run into this issue frequently.

Ornithopter 2004-09-23 11:44 reporter ~0007716	Just a note to anyone who has/will be implementing my work around mentioned above: Make sure you add a clear button to the bug_report_page.php. The way the script works, it keeps the form info around even after a bug has been successfully submitted. Now this can be good if someone is entering a few related bugs, then they only have to change the subject and description. However if the reporter returns a few weeks later to find their old bug info pop up and they have to clear the form by hand, this gets annoying. A sample solution: <!-- Submit Button --> <tr> <td class="left"> <span class="required"> * <?php echo lang_get( 'required' ) ?></span> </td> <td> <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="left"> <input tabindex="12" type="reset" class="button" value="Clear Report" /> </td> <td class="right"> <input tabindex="13" type="submit" class="button" value="<?php echo lang_get( 'submit_report_button' ) ?>" /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr>

packeteer 2004-10-19 23:20 reporter ~0008110 Last edited: 2004-10-20 02:46	duplicate of 0003729 Confirm bug exists with WinXP IE 6 bug occurs with report issue page and not update issue page edited on: 10-20-04 02:46