What would you like to see from CollectiveAccess 2.0?
We'd like to hear from users as we plan for CollectiveAccess 2.0. What would you like to see from the next major release?
All ideas are welcome from features to new protocols to big picture wish lists.
Thanks in advance for weighing in!
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Because of limited/nonexisting internet access I have to make notes on paper and enter later. This would save lots of time.
- It is very easy to run up against too many mySQL requests per user, and timeouts. It would be wonderful to be able to break up long operations to avoid this, such as reindexing, etc
-It would be really useful to be able to run all caUtils function from a browser - shared server often do not have shell access. I have always wondered why they cant be.
- Built-in backup/restore functions runnable from a browser.
nginx
php as a service - certain batch processing would timeout when running php as a service
php 7
maraidb 10.x listed as supported
Right now when you go to run an import from the web interface the import runs right away, and the webpage keeps loading until it is done (or times out). The only way to do "big" jobs, especially on a slow network, is to do it directly on the server in the command line or through ssh, which is really not the best, especially if you want users to be able to do this but not have access to server settings.
Ideally, there would be a way to set up a job, test it (i.e. import the first 100 items from the list and see if it works), and then either tell the server to go away and do it now, or schedule it to run later during a period of low demand. The server would then email you when the job is finished, or if there is an error, etc.
Yours,
Chris Litfin
Hi Seth,
I hadn't heard of this feature before and I have been playing around with it a bit. __CA_QUEUE_ENABLED__ only seems to handle single imports of media.
What I want is essentially something that allows you to set up a cron job to run anything that catools/cautils can run, but from the browser instead of the command line. (I know that actually building cron jobs from the web is not a good idea, but something that can duplicate that functionality.) The ability to "preview" the first x% of the job (i.e. the first 100 lines to import) would be a real plus.
Actually, bringing all the catools/cautils functionality out to the web browser would be nice. I know some of it (like rebuilding search indices) is available in the web browser, but (correct me if I am wrong) not all functionality is.
Yours,
Chris Litfin
Right now, we're struggling with how we allow users access to the /import directory on the linux server, which seems to be where the images to import must go.