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

That's why I have for the moment a very modest proposal : when we select
contents to be copied, if there is a Folder among them, we display a
generic message "Moving or duplicating folders can take a long time"
this can be done is object_paste View


2013/12/8 ajung <[email protected]>

> Such operations are handled basically on the Zope level (CopyManager) and
> there is no way to get hold of any kind of "progress" information without
> extending the CopyManager API of Zope.
> And for a move operation the complete old contents will be unindexed and
> the
> new content will be indexed as well.  By default there is no way to
> determine how expensive such an operation might be. From the Plone level
> you
> might introspect the path index and get the number of objects in the
> related
> subtree  - however not only the number objects matter but also there size
> and type .
>
> -aj
>
>
> Luca Fabbri wrote
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Guido Stevens &lt;
>
> > guido.stevens@
>
> > &gt; 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -- luca
> >
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> >
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