TOPIC: Template did not save..help

I worked on a template for 4 hours on Saturday and saved it often as I was working on it.  After I finished, I ran thru all of the sections again and made sure that everything was O.K.  I did a final save and closed the program.  I just turned my computer on to access the template to do a report and low and behold, most of the added sections , section panels and damage panels are gone aas if nothing saved.  I think that I have lost my mind..4 hours of work down the drain....where did my data go?

You say that most of it is gone, but not all of that? The only way I can see that happening is if you were clicking save inspection rather than save template at the end. Check the other templates and their times. Also check the inspections. I'll get inspectors asking this problem some times and it ends up being that they were saving an inspection instead.

Also, are you working off that corrupt template from last week or did you start over?

I know that I was saving the template and not the report.  I believe that I did start maybe with the corrupt template, because the items that were left (or saved) were the ones that I started with originally and all of the work that was lost was added after.  So, how do I get a blank non-corrupt template?  I started with the default template and deleted all items and started from scratch.  If this is what corrupted it, how to I start a new template from scratch?

Hi Robert,

In going through the template editor over the past week and implementing the ability to change panels I found I bug that I think caused your initial problem. If you double click on a menu item (left side) and click cancel, the program was not handling it properly and could have corrupted the template. The same goes if you make changes to the template then click cancel instead of save. This must have been introduced in the last version as I started to implement the panel name changes but didn't finish. I've resolved both of those now. I'm finishing up the testing on the panel name changes right now, I want to make sure it's working smoothly.

Continuing to work from that corrupt template is more than likely what caused your problem. For a quick test, try making a few changes to the default template, save and reopen and see if they are there.

The blank will work fine in the next version, in fact, I'm going to include a blank template. I have a copy of what you sent me and I'll recreate that for you as I feel bad this last bug nipped you.