Safeguards for Save Button (New Grant Generation)
For Foundation Cloud Grants, I ran into the problem twice of having multiple of the same grant generate with unique grant numbers after hitting the Save Button many times. After pressing the save button for the first time, there is delay of 5 to 10 seconds usually between hitting that button and the grant generating so it appears that it is not processing and I hit it again multiple times. However, this clogs up our system with multiple unnecessary grants that need to be deleted later.
Veronica and I met and we were thinking of some safeguards that could be put in place to help prevent this issue in the future. The first one being that the save button would be grayed out and no longer clickable so that only one grant would generate. Additionally, the second feature we talked about was having a loading cycle or circle display to show that the grant is being processed after hitting the save button. I think those two should suffice as safeguards that could be implemented and prevent this hassle of cleaning up grants down the line.
If you have any other suggestions, I would be interested to know! Thank you to everyone helping to resolve this issue!
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Kelley Graham commented
Agreed, if the system performance is slower than normal, a spinning icon to let the user recognize the function is in progress.
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Devan Caton commented
We've had this happen as well. It's also happened if someone just dose a double-click out of habit.