Sunday, February 8, 2009

How to retrieve draft in the forum

Today someone asked about how to retrieve the draft that has been saved while doing a forum posting, eg. Posting a job opening in the centre. It's really not quite an intuitive process as I spent quite a while trying to figure out too. Below are the steps:

1. Click on the "User Control Panel".
2. Click on "Manage Drafts" on the left hand side of the User Control Panel

The complications start here:
3. To edit without posting to the forum, click on "View/Edit". This option will allow the user to continue editing and then save again. It will not allow you to edit and post the draft to the live forum.
4. To delete, click on the "Marked" checkbox, and click the "Delete marked" button.
5. To post to the live forum after editing, the user must click on "Load Draft". Only this option will have the button to "Submit" to the actual forum board.


Learnt something new today, wondered why the developers must make it so complicated.

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