Multi-select in Manage Documents

wjt commented

2016-06-28 10:59:19 +00:00

The grid and list views in the Manage Documents dialog allow you to select multiple items, but you can't perform operations in bulk on the selected items. The last-selected item is shown in the sidebar; adding a new entity gets applied correctly to that item, but removing an entity seems to break the dialog.

I would expect: either the grid and list would not allow you to select more than one document, or (better!) selecting multiple items would show you the entities they have in common in the sidebar, and allow you to add/remove entities in bulk.

The grid and list views in the *Manage Documents* dialog allow you to select multiple items, but you can't perform operations in bulk on the selected items. The last-selected item is shown in the sidebar; adding a new entity gets applied correctly to that item, but removing an entity seems to break the dialog. I would expect: either the grid and list would not allow you to select more than one document, or (better!) selecting multiple items would show you the entities they have in common in the sidebar, and allow you to add/remove entities in bulk.

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j commented

2016-06-30 14:49:29 +00:00

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there is a button on the upper right to loop through the selected documents, this button also shows up in the preview dialog (space). multi edit would be nice though.

wjt commented

2016-06-30 15:00:34 +00:00

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I have a part-working multi-edit for documents' entities, will try to finish it up in the next couple of days. It will be on top of the patches on https://wiki.0x2620.org/ticket/2914 .

I have a part-working multi-edit for documents' entities, will try to finish it up in the next couple of days. It will be on top of the patches on <https://wiki.0x2620.org/ticket/2914> .

wjt commented

2016-06-30 17:27:08 +00:00

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Attachment 0001-documentsPanel-bulk-edit-entities.patch (5959 bytes) added

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0001-documentsPanel-bulk-edit-entities.patch

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wjt commented

2016-07-01 09:26:56 +00:00

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One thing missing in this patch: I guess the thumbnail in the sidebar should show some composition of some/all of the selected documents, rather than the most-recently-selected one.

Multi-select in Manage Documents #2934