So while writing up my latest trip report I had left the window open for longer than normal (took a while writing it and also got distracted/delayed several times) so apparently it had been idle long enough for my login to automatically time-out.
When I finally put all the finishing touches on the trip report and hit "Save and Activate" it instead (since I was apparently no longer logged in) acted as a self-destruct button that obliterated everything (I checked the trip report tab and it didn't show up and when I went to my trip report history it showed up as a report in progress but with only the title and photos).
Fortunately I had done a rough draft in Word so I was able to copy over most of the data but had to reinsert and re-caption all the photos, tweak the formatting etc.
Is there a good way (other than not taking too long) to make sure you don't auto-destruct trip reports by having your login timed out mid-report?
Self destruct button for Trip Reports
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Re: Self destruct button for Trip Reports
You can save it as inactive while you're working on it a few times to ensure your progress isn't lost.
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Re: Self destruct button for Trip Reports
Wow, that's rough. Sorry man. Good thing you had a draft.
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Re: Self destruct button for Trip Reports
I’ll see what I can do to avoid this.
It was probably caused by an IP address change in the session that was inactive.
It was probably caused by an IP address change in the session that was inactive.
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