Re: Renaming / moving a folder with a lot of content : warning the user

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Guido Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/12/13 12:06, thomas desvenain wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Zope allows us to move folders with a lot of contents with very low
>> risk... except about computation time, because of catalog reindexation.
>>
>> On many projects, we had user worried because they got a "proxy error"
>> when they do such an action which seems very common for them.
>>
>> What do you think about displaying a warning when a user "Copy" or
>> "Rename" a folder with many subcontents ?
>
> Or even better: set a modal that says "operation in progress" which ajax
> polls the backend to see when it starts responding again, and meanwhile
> shows an incrementing timer to keep the user busy. The tricky part is do
> do that in a way that is multi-instance loadbalancing safe.
>

You need also to check for too-many conflict error, when moving folders fails.

I'm wondering if Plone is still reindexing all of the object data
instead of path-related info only, or not.



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