I thought to enlarge my team for a while to understand a possible improvement for a case is going to be a pita.

I need to be consistent inside a top-down pattern in which I have these nested content below the tabs:

• settings
• elements list

I'd like to have a way to save changes without any frustration for the users.

CASE A: SETTINGS

here I have a settings tab in which I could have various general or custom settings for the the object. How would you save? Just in this tab? or at a object level? Manually or automatically?

CASE B: LIST

Here I have a list, let's say the object is made by various elements (it's a people group). How would you change the edits to the list? autosave once something is done? manual save? higher level save?

It's quite hard to me. Probably I would add an autosave on the high level so that once a user makes a change it's saved. Would it be ok to add the autosave also in the settings tab?

Thank's a lot!