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Last Post 12/18/2009 11:26 AM by Peter Donker. 3 Replies.
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Jason Scott
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08/04/2009 8:49 PM

I've found (through an accidental hard delete) a flaw in the way the DMX UI operates. I'll try to keep the scenario simple. In the root directory, suppose we have a folder named "Folder".  Inside that, we have a folder named "Subfolder". In the default AJAX view, I can click "Folder" on the left-hand pane to display the conents of it in the right-hand pane.

I found that if I click "Subfolder" in the RIGHT-hand pane (to select it), the same folder is not selected in the left-hand pane.  In the left-hand pane, "Folder" is still highlighted.  This means that "Folder" is selected on the left, while "Subfolder" is selected on the right. 

It might seem like a trivial behavior, but it's quite major.  When the user then used the menu to select "Folder>Hard Delete", it won't delete the folder selected on the right.  It deletes the parent folder on the left. I destroyed an entire parent folder of data because of this (and the "graveyard" feature doesn't seem to be enabled on our custom build of 5.1.0).

Can this behavior be fixed so that clicking a folder on the right pane also selects the same folder in the left pane?

Peter Donker
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08/04/2009 10:51 PM
Hi Jason,

Right. The 'vocabulary' of DMX is that what is on the right is the 'item' and on the treeview the 'folder'. I see your point that this can become confusing. In an upcoming version we plan to scrutinize the menu again to see if we can improve it. We'll take your comments along.

Peter
Brad Schafer
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12/14/2009 7:27 PM
Peter,

Although I am not sure how exactly it was done we had a folder deleted when we we're trying to delete a file.....

Is there a way to recover the items in the graveyard?
Peter Donker
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12/18/2009 11:26 AM
Hi Brad,

Not from the UI. So a bulk 'restore' is not possible. But you can look it up in the graveyard folder and all the data is there in an attached xml file.

Peter
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