It loads data from War Room automatically, being based on the mission.pbo name. You won't see a load button or anything. Assuming you're saving to the database properly, and your mission is correctly set up for persistence, just launch the mission normally on the server and your progress will be there when you spawn in.

To start your mission over, change the mission PBO name.

The technical stuff is a bit out of my league. May need to wait for a dev to hop on. It's my understanding, in the current release, couchDB is the only method for saving data to the ALiVE database, which can be viewed while on ALiVE's War Room website (along with lots of other stuff).

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by using just "War Room." Can you clarify?

But yes, if you've successfully saved a mission using (Admin only) esc menu "server save and exit," loading the mission simply requires you to start the server again with the same mission.pbo name. The loading process is automatic.

If you don't have a persistent mission set up, and aren't sure how, I can link to you the necessary info. I guess I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

For the new saving method, In your mission, you need ALiVE data placed. In the module, you change the default CouchBD option to profileNamespace.

Then set persistence to yes in all the modules your mission uses. Look through them all, a bunch have this feature defaulted to no.

If you're hosting your own local server, loading a save is as simple as starting the mission again like you did the first time you played it and saved it (either in SP or local MP, makes no difference). Dedicated server is a bit trickier.

Anyway, if you're not seeing the mission load correctly, I'm going to assume your mission isn't using the editor/module settings needed for data to be saved.

A good simple way to test would be to change the data option for save mission time from no to yes. Save the mission at a certain time of day. Start the mission again, and look at the time.

The local CouchDB should work automatically for the most part.

You may either want to post the mission here, or post your server rpt from the session you saved and the session you loaded. Database persistence is pretty reliable these days so I'm going to guess the solution here is simple (i.e. Mod conflict, or module not set properly or server info not setup correctly on the site, etc).

It's possible you're thinking your mission is saving because your profile is updating on War Room. These are not the same thing (though I can see how someone would assume one connecting would mean the other was working, etc).

Put the file on dropbox and post the shared url here. I doubt it's a mission issue though.

Also tagging @Tupolov since he's the couch man :)

@Cobra I managed to solve the problem. Player positions and vehicles are being loaded. The issue seemed to be incorrect setup with war room. When a mission loads from couch it dosent appear to have any ingame notification of a successful data load.

What was the issue with war room?

@Cobra Everything seems to be persisting except for partolreps and spotreps. Am I missing an option in a module in the editor to enable persistent reports?

I believe the patrol- and spotreps persistence is a separate setting in some module but can't remember what exactly.

The "ALiVE (Required)" modules has an option called "Disable Adv. Markers" which should be set to "No". If that's the case then it should work fine.

Check the RPT of the client that's doing the server save, it should be mentioned in there somewhere.

I don't know too much about the markers and persistence but you can post whatever you think is useful here and I'll check it out.

Our persistence guy will be back soon but until then we'll have to make due.. :D