Cannot get profile to do a full save, only saving drafts.

Question

While doing suggestions for Data Doctors, I noticed that if I even put my cursor in the "explanation box", a draft is saved.  First save was to put her married name into the current last name box.  Only a draft would save.  Second edits, corrected the locations and cleaned up the gedcom and still I was only able to save drafts, even though I added Data Doctor 616 suggestion message plus correction.

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Apparently there are children attached to this profile that are private and they were born after this woman died.  I think this is where the problem occurs.  There is a warning that I cannot dismiss (save anyway) that says 

1. A mother's death date (Davis-13707 died 12 May 1916) should not be before one of her children's birth dates (Haddock-102 born 1920) . (1461)

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I have the same problem The profile is of a child born to a Mormon family where there are a number of half siblings  as the father had several wives at the same time. I got the message about less than 8 months between siblings though they are half siblings and it has saved as a draft only no matter what I do

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You should see what I worked through below -- but I really think you need to do "save anyway" if that button is there, or start to leave the page after getting a draft saved and hopefully your browser will ask you if you want to leave.  Just in case -- save an entire copy of the biography somewhere else temporary like notepad, etc. -- then when the browser asks you whether to leave or cancel -- do leave.  According to Jamie, the browser doesn't know there is a draft saved internally to WikiTree. When I pressed Leave -- I get that oh so wonderful information that WikiTree had saved my changes.

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Thank you I just gave up as it was the third time in  half an hour I encountered the problem

Answer 1

Is there not a "Save Anyway" button once you press the "Full Save" button?

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I was trying to change her current last name.  I did not use a default comment, I used "Edited current last name based on marriage."

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Interesting, I did "leave site" and it left me on the site but now the change to her current last name is saved. "Changes saved" box appears at the top.

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I think there is a bug here but I made changes, fixed the locations, cleaned up the gedcom, added an acknowledgments section.  While I was doing that, something triggered the automatic draft.  When I finished the changes, I did a full save -- and it gave me the warning about her being dead.  I did Save anyway, which gave me the Chrome "leave or cancel" and I did Leave.  The changes to the profile were saved.  So I'm going to go ahead and update the suggestions for Ales.  I'll be happy to help you if there is anything I can do.  Just pop me a note.  And THANK YOU!!!

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Jamie, I am confused a bit by this discussion.

If the Save Anyway button is selected, the Leave / Cancel message is shown.  If the Cancel is selected, you are stuck in a loop on the page, but I thought that 'you' had said that the changes were already saved at that point.  

I have made a very minor change on Davis-13707 to remove the last item in the Sources section 'Ancestry Tree, no id'. I selected the 'Full Save', then selected 'Save Anyway', then the 'Leave or Cancel' message is shown.  Without selecting either option, I opened the same profile up in a different browser.  The 'save' has not been done to the profile.  The last item still exists in the profile, so it looks like the profile is not being saved until the 'Leave' is selected.

I did this in FF, so it was a different browser than Chrome.

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If you press cancel, the full save will be canceled. But a draft will be saved and you can reload the changes when you go to edit the profile again.

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The full save is NOT done until the 'Leave' is selected, correct? That is the question because I thought you had said in a G2G that when the 'Save Anyway' was done that the 'actual save' was done, but it seems that it is not done until the 'Leave' is selected.  Since this has only started happening since the 'new draft save' was implemented, that is why it is confusing to many people.

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Yes, you need to press leave so the browser will let the information be submitted to the server. We will work on suppressing the browser message for the save anyway button (not for leaving the page in other ways), but it's a holiday weekend so we aren't doing much right now :)

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I think the Save Anyway message is needed and shouldn't be suppressed when it finds a conflict with dates, etc., but something has changed to cause the Leave message which goes against 'logical' thinking wen it says you are going to 'lose' your changes.

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I'm just talking about suppressing the popup message from the browser, not the "Save Anyway" warning message from WikiTree.

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Just fyi, last week we released a fix so the popup should no longer appear when "Save Anyway" is pressed.