Qrew Legendnp,
On Legacy Forms, When you refresh the page the "Auto save when redirected away from the page. " happens IF data on the parent form changes. I have heard the expression that the main form is dirtied. But if you just make grid edit changes to children, then a page refresh does not force up that nice yellow "I'm saving" box and your Grid Edit data entry changes are lost.
So, the cheat that I use is to create a numeric field called [Dummy to Force Save] and another formula Numeric field called [Dummy to Force Save +1]. Not surprisingly the formula for that field is simply.
[Dummy to Force Save] + 1
Then I make a form rule that says
when the field [Dummy to Force Save] is not equal to the value in the field [Dummy to Force Save +1]
Action
Change [Dummy to Force Save] to the value in the field [Dummy to Force Save +1].
The form will execute that form rule three times (ie not an infinite loop), and the effect of this will be to dirty the record as soon as the parent record is open for editing. Thus, if you make a button to refresh the page or navigate away, the parent record will have been dirty and will cause that nice yellow box to come up to save the Parent record (and hence any Grid Edit changes) as you navigate away or refresh the record.
