One day I had this idea and I just thought I'd share and see what ya'll think...
Often the issue with cuttings failing seems to be moisture extremes for extended periods, ie. too moist or dry.  So I thought what if I stick the cuttings in the soil of an actively growing potted plant.  The plant will soak up excess moisture via it's root system and as long as you water regularly, you would have the normal cycle of soil for a potted plant.  Because cuttings have little or no roots, they're not sucking up the water in the soil at a fast rate, but by using this technique, it would possibly remove the concerns about moisture and allow you to just water your plant on it's normal cycle every few days and the figs would just grow and root in the process.
Obvious drawbacks are it isn't feasible on large scale and eventually you'll have to depot and separate the roots from the potted plants' roots.
However, seems like it might be a low maintenance soln for someone who doesn't have time to manage just a couple cuttings in a yr and doesn't feel like watching them day to day beyond their normal routine.

Thoughts?

This might be a good idea.

You could pot with some variety of plant that is cheap and grows well. Then once the fig is stared you could just cut the (nurse)plant of at ground level leaving the more important fig and it's roots undisturbed. Maybe some loose leaf lettuce? Cheap, starts easily from seed and you can eat the results. Just use a drill to make the fig starter hole, instert cutting and water in. You might have to wax the exposed portion so it doesn't desicate, or might not, depending on ambient humidity.. I'm sure the point is to make things easier and avoid the humidity dome. Something like loose leaf lettuce if tall enough to surround the cutting may release enough moisture to make a nice humid microclimate as well.

I forget what they call this system, but it seems pretty simple. You could use any plastic pot for the outer container and a small clay pot for the center. Just fill the center pot when the soil feels dry. If you use a Tupperware type container then you can easily pop on a second container as the dome to keep in humidity. Moisture and Humidity are what you are trying to control. You idea was close but it would not give you enough humidity.

I think that is the Forsythe method. Or is it Forsythe pot.

peat pot method. or that's what one of the old forum member who never comes back here for some reasons "cough, cough" used to call it. i still use it. it works well as long as you don't drench the soil and don't let it go bone dry. and moving up to 1 gal much easier. 

Here's some info on "The Forsythe Cuttings Method"...Personally, I have never tried it, but may..


http://farmishmomma.com/?p=281

Timmy2green,
Your Idea has actually been put into practice (partially) with SIPs (Sub-Irrigated Planters). A few forum members have been using them for cuttings and have posted on their successful use. 5 minute mini SIP, 2 minute 2 dollar SIP and Wick Watering. I have not used them for cuttings but once you get the correct balance of potting mix material and wick size, the SIP could be used as another fig rooting method. The Idea would be to pre-root in the pre-wetted mix, and fill the reservoir after the cuttings have rooted.
 
I have used the Forsythe cutting Pot for rooting green (summer) cuttings successfully, but would not recommend it for dormant cuttings. There are too many easier methods to root dormant cuttings.

If I find that I have over watered a rooted cuttings in a glass or a pot, I simply place the pot at 2" or higher elevated position and insert wicks in the holes at the bottom of the pot (rolled tissue paper pushed in the holes works as well) and see the excess moisture drained out through the wick. Once active dripping from wicks stop, I replace wicks with newer ones (tissue paper) which help soak more moisture out.

All good tips here.  I have to say I had horrible experiences with the peat pot method.  For me it was a complete and unmitigated disaster.  And for the record, I experimented with various levels of moisture, etc.  Actually just recently I tried a bunch of cuttings with Jon's uline bag method with different mixes since I had decent success with it last year and I found the 50/50 mix of perlite and promix produced crazy root systems a lot more so than the perlite with chopped up moss mix.  That said, it was a small sample size so I wouldn't put too much weight on the results.  Also, it seems different strokes for different folks really holds true when it comes to cutting success.

I'm attaching a pic to go along with this post.  The pic demonstrates a single 1/1 success rate with the method I mentioned at the top of the post.  I did not have a humidity dome but the cutting was entirely under soil.  I also had a friend who knew nothing about rooting cuttings and he just cut one off his fig tree he had growing indoors in winter and stuck it in the soil and watered it well and it too grew.  If I understood him correctly, I think he followed this general method as well.