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Auto-save workflow design
I lost a more than a day of work, hours!
and no automatic save feature....
This alone will cause me not to go with Nintex as a solution. I can't afford this.
I've testes over 8 solutions this month, and all offer auto save.
The mighty Nintex does not....
and no automatic save feature....
This alone will cause me not to go with Nintex as a solution. I can't afford this.
I've testes over 8 solutions this month, and all offer auto save.
The mighty Nintex does not....
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ADMIN RESPONSESep 7, 2022Thank you very much for posting your feedback. At this time, we will not be adding this request to the near-term backlog, as we are focused on other priorities. However, we reevaluate requests every quarter and will reach out if priorities change. Please keep the feedback coming as it is critical for our longer-term planning.
Hi all,
Auto-saving workflows was released in September 2022. As explained by the help documentation:
If a session is about to expire while you are creating a workflow, your unsaved changes will be automatically saved. If you modified an existing workflow, a new version with your unsaved changes is automatically saved. If you are creating a new workflow that has never been saved before, then Nintex Workflow Cloud will save the workflow as Unnamed workflow - [current date/time]. All auto-saved workflows include "Auto-saved by Nintex" version comments. If applicable, the draft version number is incremented.
I can understand your frustration of losing so many hours of work! We do have the auto-save feature in the product backlog, but is yet to be prioritized.
For added context, did you lose your workflow design due to navigating away without first manually-saving or did your session time out?
On a separate note, what other process automation solutions are you also trialing? Do you find that they all include the capabilities that you require?
Please let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with,
Kate
I think version the autosaves like x.x.1 would best, so:
1.0.0 (publish 1, save 0, autosave 0)
4.2.3 (publish 4, save 2, autosave 3)
I would have these collapsed by default with an arrow next to the manual save version to expand (as they will only have timestamps and no version comments).
I think even if it only autosaved every 5 minutes (and especially before a session expiry) and just kept one copy of 'these are your changes since your last manual save' rather than making many versions (though this flexibility would be nice) that would work well.