This page is intended to help people getting familiar with the draft feature so that they can save their research notes as a draft and can complete them at their own convenience.


### How to create a Draft Research Note?
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On left to the <button class="btn btn-primary">Publish</button> button, there is a checkbox present, which is required to be checked by a user, a notice in the red text would appear like 
[![draft_interface.png](/i/25210)](/i/25210)

This is just a warning that user wants to save his work as a draft. After checking on the "Save as Draft" checkbox, <button class="btn btn-primary">Publish</button> button would be changed to <button class="btn btn-primary">Save</button>, another step verifying that user is on right direction. Finally, to save a draft, just click on save button and draft is saved!

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### How to verify that a research note is saved as a draft?
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1. At the top of the Research Note, the user will able to see this warning 
[![notice.png](/i/25206)](/i/25206)

2. User will also see a label <span class="label label-success">Draft</span> below the title of the research note.

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### How could a user access his Draft?
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A Draft could be seen by a user on his dashboard, it would look something like this 
[![draft_show.png](/i/25207)](/i/25207)


The user can access his drafts from his profile. In **Research tab**, **Draft** tab is present as a sub-tab.
[![draft_tab.png](/i/25743)](/i/25743)

 

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### Who all would be able to see a Draft?
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1. Author of the Draft

2. Moderator

3. Admin

4. Co-author of the draft (if any) 

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### How a user can Publish his Draft?
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The warning at the top of the page carries a "Publish Draft" button, by pressing which an author can publish his draft. 
[![notice.png](/i/25209)](/i/25209)

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### Who could create a Draft note?
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A Draft note can be created by all the users who have published at least one research note in the past. So, a newcomer is not allowed to save his draft. 

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