Filling in a form on your phone, a slightly sideways scroll or a stray back gesture used to take you out of it and lose what you had written. Forms in the Paddl Assist app now guard against that in three ways.
Back swipe from the edge only
On a form, swiping back only works from the very left edge of the screen. A swipe that starts in the middle of the form scrolls it, as you would expect. Everywhere else in the app, swiping back works as it always has.
A check before you leave
If you have written something and go back, with a swipe, the back arrow or your phone's back button, the app asks first:
On a form that keeps drafts, Leave this form? (Leave your handover? on the handover). What you have written is kept as a draft. Choose Leave, keep the draft, Discard, or Keep writing.
On other forms, Discard what you've written? Choose Discard or Keep writing.
An empty form, or one you have just sent, closes without asking.
Drafts
The handover (end of day), complaint, maintenance, visitor and delivery forms keep a draft as you type, and reports from the Log tab save your progress the same way. A line under the form says when the draft was last saved, and when you come back to the form it says Draft restored with the time.
On this phone only. A draft is not sent anywhere until you submit the form, so it will not be on another phone or in the admin panel.
Yours, for that site. Each draft belongs to the person who wrote it and the site it is for. On a shared tablet the next person never opens your half-written handover, and a draft for one site is never offered at another.
Gone once it is done with. A draft is removed when you send the form (or it is queued to send when you are offline), when you discard it, or once it is a day old.
If the form already has something in it when a saved draft is found, for example after you switch site, the app asks which to keep: Use the saved draft, or Keep this, which replaces the saved draft. It never overwrites a draft without asking.
For the forms themselves, see Logging Checks & Reports on the App and Submitting Handover & End-of-Shift Reports.