#1615 Automatically save new table after naming first column
Naming a table is not always a users' first action when creating a new table, sometimes its the last before clicking Save. If a user leaves their station or visits another window/tab while creating a table, the inactivity clock counts down. If the user doesn't press Save before the countdown expires, the user loses everything, has log in again and re-enter whatever details had already been entered prior to the countdown expiring. It would be greatly appreciated by all users if a new table was automatically saved after naming the first column regardless of whether the user has entered a table name or not. If no table name has been entered when the countdown expires, automatically save it as 'table1' perhaps. So if the user has 20 column names entered when the countdown expires, the user won't have to re-enter everything again after logging in again.
Discussion
I think this is similar to https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/1602/
We could save the table details in a cookie, and reapply them to the table edit page on logging in again.
Hey phpmyadmin,
Is there a decision on this?
Not yet.
Hey Mark, should this be approached by actually saving the table? or showing the same tbl create page that the user was initially on. The current functionality already redirects to the same page we were on before expiration. We could solve this by saving the details in a cookie and simply presenting it. May I work on the solution?
Again, there has not been a decision about this request, so please do not work on this (yet).
Thinking more about this, I believe that most users have an idea of their table name before starting to create it; therefore, this RFE is too specific.