On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 20:46 +0100, Anders wrote:

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From section 3.4.3 "Cancel Function":

"While there are prominent buttons to save, preview and view changes of a page, the option to cancel changes is only an unobtrusive link located next to the buttons. Even if there were no problems in the test, it is advisable to provide a more prominent option to cancel changes - simply to provide unexperienced authors with a clear exit function."

I always wondered why there isn't a cancel button when editing nodes in Drupal.

/Anders

You know even on my brain dead days I've gone to write a story and decided against it, then started asking myself, 'How do I get out of the node/add/X page?'....

Bèr Kessels wrote:

Op woensdag 8 maart 2006 20:55, schreef Darrel O'Pry:

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You know even on my brain dead days I've gone to write a story and decided against it, then started asking myself, 'How do I get out of the node/add/X page?'

Cancel would bring you to the place where you were before. Very often that is a place you canot reach by another link. It is, in fact an advaced version of a back button.

Well, it would be possible to keep track of where you were, though it would mean passing a parameter around throughout the whole process or using the $_SESSION. More reasonably, canceling would send you to your account page, or the front page with a message "editing canceled". I'm in favor of a cancel button on edit forms. It still has a psychological effect on me when I change my mind about editing or creating content, and I would like being able to click something that expresses my intentions clearly. Finally, putting a cancel button on the form would give us a chance to react to the cancellation. This could be useful: -- multipage forms that persist some amount of data could do cleanup. -- the user could be asked if s/he would like to save the content as a draft for continuation later -- as a very advanced feature, we could use AJAX to save any node being edited/created to help recover from things like the browser being closed, or the internet connection being lost. Cancel would then delete this information.