Chris,

I made a few edits to the bug you filed for media handling, where the
record must be saved first before media can be uploaded. I know there are a
host of issues with the media handling UI, and we have set aside some time
later in the phase III schedule to fix them.
http://issues.collectionspace.org/browse/CSPACE-4819.

Reading back through the related bugs, it appears this change was made to
avoid "orphaning" blobs - if a user can upload a blob without saving the
record, then if the record is never saved the blob will still exist. It
can't be found by a normal user, and will just clog up storage.

Would an acceptable compromise for now be to see if we can go back to
auto-saving a record when media is uploaded, so that the second set of
clicks is not required?

Chris - and any others with interest - please let me know what you think,

Thanks,
Megan

--
Megan Forbes
Collection Manager

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue  Astoria, NY 11106
movingimage.us  718 777 6800
Direct 718 777 6834

Note that finding (and deleting, or reporting, or something) orphaned blobs
would be a fairly straightforward batch process, or report.

Patrick

From: talk-bounces@lists.collectionspace.org
[mailto:talk-bounces@lists.collectionspace.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hoffman
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:18 AM
To: Megan Forbes
Cc: CollectionSpace Talk List
Subject: Re: [Talk] Media handling issues

Hi Megan,

Thanks for cleaning up those bug reports!  Regarding

Would an acceptable compromise for now be to see if we can go back to
auto-saving a record when media is uploaded, so that the second set of
clicks is not required?

yes that would be great.  I too dislike orphaned blobs (!) but we want the
process of uploading images to be more streamlined.

Chris

On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Megan Forbes wrote:

Chris,

I made a few edits to the bug you filed for media handling, where the record
must be saved first before media can be uploaded. I know there are a host of
issues with the media handling UI, and we have set aside some time later in
the phase III schedule to fix them.
http://issues.collectionspace.org/browse/CSPACE-4819.

Reading back through the related bugs, it appears this change was made to
avoid "orphaning" blobs - if a user can upload a blob without saving the
record, then if the record is never saved the blob will still exist. It
can't be found by a normal user, and will just clog up storage.

Would an acceptable compromise for now be to see if we can go back to
auto-saving a record when media is uploaded, so that the second set of
clicks is not required?

Chris - and any others with interest - please let me know what you think,

Thanks,
Megan

--
Megan Forbes
Collection Manager

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue  Astoria, NY 11106
movingimage.us http://movingimage.us/  718 777 6800
Direct 718 777 6834