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The disadvantage with always predefining the type you chose last is, that - if you have last used a typ which you don't need again - you have to change it back again.

Just think of inserting elements which you don't need that often: With your idea you will have to first make extra clicks to choose it AND then make additional clicks to change it back after using it.

All in all I don't think that for an "average" page it makes a big difference whether you have to click everytime you want another element than the one you used before or everytime you don't want a text-element.

Hello Christopher,

i see this from the other site. when i layout a page and i want a clean layout with a perfect typography, i can not mix various elements. when i make a site it becomes from top to down of the site the same elements, text, or text with images on the left or right side. when i make a tutorial with images i place 10 text with images ce, but when i click on save and new, i think it must be the same element as the last.... when you click in a news record on save an new, you get also a news element... you know? ;-)

Best wishes

I see. So the ideal thing would be to make this configurable with a special option.

I second Manfred. I get feedback from the editors that it is not intuitive if they just worked an a certain content element (say, "image"), and have to manually switch to that element type again after a "Save & New". They intuitively think that the "New"-part has to be context sensitive and "know" they want to insert another element of the same type (another "image").

Editors generally do not think "technical" in terms of "content elements are all the same sort of data, albeit with different properties", but more intuitive like in "I just worked on an image, now I want text, so I have to close the image first". That's one primary thing I learned from giving tutorials and providing end-user-support to about 200 editor's during the last years. :P

So +1 to change this behaviour.

Well, as I pointed out above always getting the last used element type again is not the ideal solution.
The best way is to add an option to choose if you want to keep the existing behaviour or if you would like to have the last used element again.
Maybe call it something like options.saveDocNew.rememberLastUsedCEType.

Please create a patch and send it to Core List!

Hello,
i also expected to insert the same type again if i use this function

There is also a bug related to that in 4.4.4 and i don't know if i should open another bug report or it is related to this:

if you configured to use the RTE by default and add a new content element with this save and new functionality, the RTE is not loaded in the new ce.

Hi,

as this issue is very old. Does the problem still exists within newer versions of TYPO3 CMS (4.5 or 6.1)?

TYPO3 6.1.1:

- create an element "Bullet list"

- click on "Save and New" - a new element "Bullet list" is created (that's good / expected)

However:

- click on "Save and New" again - a new element "Text" is created

So the error is partially solved (for the first new element), but not gone (consecutive elements still revert to type "Text").