This post probably belongs on a flex-user group, but I'll ask here for now.
What are the best practices in a Flex web application when saving data to a remote server? Here's the use case: You are using an application that allows you to set up reports and save the report definition to the server. So users can save multiple report definitions and call them up at will. You know the remote save operation will take a few seconds to complete, but you don't want to reduce the user experience during this time. So you go ahead and add the report definition to the user's display list while the operation is occuring in the background. Let's say now the user tries to modify or delete the report definition before the save operation has completed. At this point you have an error because they are trying to delete something that doesn't really exist. What's the best practice for this case? I see the following options: 1. Disable the entire UI until the save operation completes. 2. Disable the portion of the UI that modifies the data until the save operation completes. 3. Display an error if the user modifies or deletes the item before the operation completes. 4. Hope your server and connection are fast enough to never encounter this problem :-) I'd love to know how you guys handle this type of situation. Greg
