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About 4 years ago I got an email from someone who claimed to be a member of the "abolish reset buttons" movement, or somethign like that. He was asking me to remove the Reset buttons from some forms on the website I was maintaining, claiming that those buttons do more damage than good. I thought it quite funny at the time, though I obliged his request bcs it did seem to make sense. Since then I have come to agree with him wholeheartedly. I cannot remember one situation, *ever* that I have intentionally used a Reset or Cancel button on a web form. I can however, remember many (very infuriating) times that I have accidentally clicked Reset and lost the last 5/10/20 minutes work. In fact the reason I am filing this issue is that it happened to me yesterday right here in IZ. Please consider removing Reset buttons from any existing forms in SourceCast, and not using them going forward! Thanks.
Accepting this issue.
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Created PCN12612 for this enhancement request.
A target milestone has not yet been assigned to this issue. Our plan is to update the issue as soon as we have more information from Product Management. The support team does check on these issues regularly. Please let us know if there are any additional considerations for this enhancement request or concerns on the timeframe for the next update. Thanks, Jan
Change in our Update Plan: Our plan is to update this issue in 2 weeks. Please let us know if there are any additional thoughts on this issue or concerns about the timeframe for the next update. Jan
Update: There is no target milestone for this issue at the moment. Action Plan: Request update from Product Management. Next Update: Within 2 weeks. Thanks, Kristen
Hi Jack, Update: The discussion around this issue was interesting. We can understand how frustrating it would be to accidentally hit a reset button and lose that information. But in the end there were some valid arguments for the reset button so the response to the internal issue was "WontFix". One argument against the reset was that it was better to just reload the page. But in some situations, such as dealing with workflow in our new issue tracker, the reset works after a workflow has been saved, so it does more than reloading the page. Action Plan: Marking this issue Won't Fix. Thanks, Kristen
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