Great module, wondering if this module should be merged with the More Buttons module at some point. I am using both right now because this module works great for the save and add another portion, and MB pretty much fails at that right now but is great at the Cancel, Save and Continue, and extending it to more forms throughout Drupal other than the nodes.

Would be great to see forces combined and tag-team a solution to a similar task.

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robin monks commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I've gone though the more buttons modules and overall I don't like the workflow for a few reasons:

1) It provides a lot of options and power that in the end I dislike in modules, it's great to have flexibility, but, this just adds complexity both to the admin options and to the module.
2) MB is incredibly stretched out for what is a rather simple set of features.
3) MB offers all options on it's own settings page, splitting up structure workflow -- Add another moved into the content type forms in the Drupal 7 release specifically to avoid this issue.

As for what it provides:

1) "Cancel" to where? This makes sense on edit forms, but when a user is creating a node there is no good way to know where the user would be expecting to back to without just making it a clone of the user's back button -- which people already have enough familiarity with to use. Additionally, if the user has overlay enabled there is already a cancel "x", so this adds no real value.
2) "Save and continue" also doesn't have a defined end to the user, is this a multi-part form, is it an alias for "Preview", is the user continuing to their finish node (in which case there are continuing nothing). The language is nonsensical.
3) It's messes with typical button order; which can be frustrating for the end user.
4) You can achieve the same changes if you want to re-order or rename buttons though good theme choices.

So; ultimately MB is fundamentally different in it's approach than Add Another; Add Another tries to make itself as simple as possible, and simplify content creation. MB wants to offer a kitchen-sink, at the cost of simplicity and at the cost of usability for the end-user. Also, Add Another has somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 times the user base of MB, over more versions of Drupal; so I don't think merging Add Another into a more poorly implemented module is at all a good idea.

Drupal also already allows people to "save and add another" by default for users and terms; so those are outside of our scope to improve.

Thanks for your issue; and feel free to add additional issues for features you feel Add Another could improve within our scope.