There is a supermarket here that sells via internet. Users choose the
merchandise from pictures and their descriptions and slowly create a
purchase request. If for some reason the connection is lost, or they
leave the computer for a while, the system shuts down. But you can log
in again and recover your order as you left it originally. Then when
you're finished you pay and they send you the goods.
I guess this is similar to what you describe here. It probably is a lot
of custom work as you say and this one is relatively easy since it only
involves one routine: making a purchase order to the supermarket. In an
accounting system one would have to record the user's input from many
screens, keep it in temporary tables and then restore it from there
until the save button is pushed.
Doable, but costly in terms of programming work.
El 01/11/2014 9:42, Ted Roche escribió:
I've wanted to do this, but have never come up with a solution that
satisfies all the use cases my clients come up with: in the middle of a
long and complex data entry, they have to go do a lookup, take a phone
call, get dragged into a meeting: do I save a half-correct and incomplete
order? What if they haven't finished entry and it's not yet valid? Do I
discard their work, which might be hours? Do I save invalid data? The
"correct" solution is to save some sort of session information, flagged as
work-in-progress, but not committed to the database as a valid entry.
That's a lot of custom work.
I haven't found a solution to that yet.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Rafael Copquin <rcopq...@fibertel.com.ar>
wrote:
I wonder what is the best way to kick users out of an app when they have
it open for ages without doing anything (the typical out-to-lunch). The
user has a number of files open and does not do anything for a long time.
I want to have the system shut itself down after 5 or 10 minutes of
inactivity
Suggestions please
Rafael Copquin
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