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Drafts and working offline

You don’t lose work when a tab closes, the browser crashes or the connection drops: the editor keeps a draft of the template you are editing, in this browser, and offers it back. A draft is not a saved template, though: to keep a template, or move it to another computer, save it as a package or publish it.

Your work as you go

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The header says where your template stands:

  • Saved: it is just as you last saved or opened it.
  • Unsaved changes · draft kept: it has changed since, and the editor keeps a draft of it, a second after each change.
  • Unsaved changes · draft not saved, in red: the browser isn’t letting the editor keep drafts (in a private window, say, or with its storage full). Point at it for the reason, and save a package before you close the tab.

Reloading the page carries on with the same draft. Each tab has its own: a template open in two tabs is two drafts.

Get unsaved work back

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When you open the editor after a tab closed with unsaved changes, it offers them back:

The Recover unsaved work dialog: a template with its date and number of pages, and Restore, Discard and Not now
  • Restore opens that template as it was, unsaved changes and all.
  • Discard throws that draft away.
  • Not now closes the dialog and keeps the drafts for next time.

Working offline

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When the editor can’t reach the server, the header says Offline:

The header with Offline, and Preview, Publish and Export PDF greyed out

Editing, undo, and saving and opening packages keep working, and so does reloading the editor. What needs the server waits, greyed out with the reason: Preview, Export PDF, Publish, Check agreement, Open from server… and uploading fonts. The editor keeps checking: when the server is back, the header says Server connected and they work again.

If the server says Server was updated – reload, reload the page; your work is kept. When a new version of the editor is ready, a bar offers to Reload, and your work is kept then too.

Good to know

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  • Drafts stay in the browser you made them in: another browser or computer doesn’t see them, and clearing the browser’s site data deletes them.
  • The editor keeps the drafts of up to five closed tabs, for 30 days.
  • A draft open in another tab isn’t offered: it is still in use.
  • Offline, a font from the library that this browser hasn’t used before shows as (not available offline) and can’t be used until the server is back.
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