I would like to be able to save changes without exiting while I am editing a Formulas question. The reason is as follows:
As opposed to Calculated questions, variables of Formulas questions do not seem to be global across different Formulas questions in the same quiz (please could you confirm this?). Hence, quizzes in which there is a Formulas question may very well have only one question with several subquestions. That could make Formulas questions sometimes long to set up, with much checking and debugging required.
Unfortunately, when returning and editing a Formulas question, after saving it for checking, each time one has to wait for the page to be loaded again, click "Expand all", "Display more..." a few times and resize a few Variable windows. This would not be a problem if it had to be done only a few times. However, with long Formulas questions, this needs to be done quite often. It then becomes a bit frustrating to realize that after a day's work, much time has been spent in waiting, reopening and resizing windows in the question editing page.
A "Save changes and continue editing" button would allow editing and updating a question (without exiting) in one (Microsoft) window and checking the outcome in another (Microsoft) window, i.e. working a bit more efficiently.
Please could you tell me:
- If I pass on the information contained in this forum to my site administrator, will he have enough information to add a "Save change and continue editing" button to the "Editing a Formulas Question" page?
- Would it not be a good idea to have both "Save changes and exit" and "Save changes (and continue editing)"** buttons at the bottom of the editing page of all question types?
** There does not seem to be automatic saving, is this so?
Thanks in advance for your help.