Saving Drafts - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>Accidents happen. We've all navigated away from a page while in the middle of a task or closed our browser. This is why <strong>Higher Logic Vanilla</strong> <em>automatically </em>saves your work while writing a <em>Discussion</em>, <em>Question</em>, <em>Idea</em>, or <em>Comment</em>. Your post is saved every few seconds, ensuring you never have to worry about losing any progress.</p><p><strong>📝 NOTE</strong>: If you use Vanilla's Knowledge Base feature, articles are also automatically saved.</p><p><strong>📝 NOTE</strong>: When writing Discussions, Questions, Ideas, and Comments, no visual indication is given when your work is saved (but have no fear, it is!). A visual indicator is provided when writing knowledge base articles, however.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/BBU4ZP5NQ40G/example-post.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/BBU4ZP5NQ40G/example-post.png" alt="example_post.png" height="564" width="813" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="manual-save">Manual save</h2><p>For even more peace of mind, you can also <strong>manually save </strong>your posts via the <strong>Save Draft</strong> button. Upon manually saving, you'll see a small popup at the bottom left of your screen with the time the draft was saved.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/LS4WP3MU607T/manual-save.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/LS4WP3MU607T/manual-save.png" alt="manual_save.png" height="543" width="575" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="manage-your-saved-drafts">Manage your saved drafts</h2><p>Your drafts are saved on a dedicated page for easy access when you want to resume your work on them. </p><ul><li>In the <strong>Quick Links</strong> area, click <strong>My Drafts</strong>.</li></ul><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-medium float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/TJUZRGO5A81K/access-drafts.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/TJUZRGO5A81K/access-drafts.png" alt="access_drafts.png" height="363" width="400" loading="lazy" data-display-size="medium" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>The resulting page lists all of your current drafts, ready to be completed at your convenience.</p><ul><li>Click a post title (or anywhere in the row) to view a draft.</li><li>Click the <strong>X</strong> to <strong>delete </strong>a draft.<em> Note that no confirmation is given, and the draft is removed immediately.</em></li></ul><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/WC9SNO0PH9JX/mydrafts-page.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/WC9SNO0PH9JX/mydrafts-page.png" alt="MyDrafts_page.png" height="576" width="861" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="disable-auto-save">Disable auto save</h2><p>If you don't want your Vanilla community to automatically save drafts while users are creating content, you can turn this feature off.</p><ol><li>Access the Dashboard.</li><li>Navigate to the <strong>Settings > Forum > Posting</strong> page.</li><li>In the <strong>Rules</strong> section, toggle OFF the <strong>Automatically Save Drafts</strong> option.</li><li>Click <strong>Save </strong>at the bottom of the page to apply your change.</li></ol><p>When posting, users can now only <em>manually </em>save drafts via the editor's <strong>Save Draft</strong> button.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/AC5GEYMIUCCQ/autodraft-option-highlighted.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/AC5GEYMIUCCQ/autodraft-option-highlighted.png" alt="autodraft_option_highlighted.png" height="545" width="755" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><br></p> </article> </main>