Suggestion: allow users to delete a saved draft from the posting form

Bethryn

It seems unnecessarily cumbersome to have to go back to the main page, go to your drafts and delete one every time you decide that you don't want to post what you've written.

If you're going to let users save and delete drafts, please make it easy for them to manage them, Vanilla.

Delzhand

Maybe this will help: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/20108236#Comment_20108236

Barrakketh

Delzhand wrote: »

Maybe this will help: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/20108236#Comment_20108236

FWIW, that changed a little after the recent-ish big forum downtime:

$('<a href="#" id="PAT_Delete_Draft">Delete Draft</a>')
         .css({'margin': '0 6px'})
        .insertAfter($('div.Buttons > a.DraftButton'));
    $('#PAT_Delete_Draft').click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
       var textarea = $('#Form_Body');
       //input:hidden[name$=DraftID]
       var draft_id = $('#Form_DraftID').attr('value');
       var trans_key = $('#Form_TransientKey').attr('value');
       if (draft_id) {
           var uri = '/vanilla/drafts/delete/{0}/{1}?Target=drafts'.format(draft_id, trans_key);
           $.ajax(
               {url: uri,
               type: 'GET',
               data: {DeliveryType: 'BOOL'},
               success: function (data) {
                   textarea.val("");                   
               }}
           );
       }
       else {
           textarea.val("");
       }
    });
}

IcyLiquid

We have plans to make the 'Cancel' button just do this.