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Wanted: "Run All Pages" and "Run Selected Pages" button for workflow runs #22

Open timwilfong opened 10 years ago

timwilfong commented 10 years ago

I would like to see the option to run a workflow on all pages assigned to that workflow or only selected pages assigned to that workflow.

Why this is useful: Here's an example I'm dealing with now. I'm running a workflow where the final job (segment by colour) has settings that I manipulate. I'm running the workflow only on certain images in this project, but various images therein need different settings. Therefore, I either have to run the entire workflow on all the images multiple times with different settings, which takes excess time and takes up excess space, or I have to run a "test page" for every single page and every single setting. It would save me hours of work if I could do this easily, since I will need to do it multiple times in order to get useable results for various pages. (We do not have a job with automated setting detection for this job.)

Work-arounds we currently have: Option 1) We can run the entire workflow on all the pages assigned to it; Option 2) We can either press "test workflow" for each selected image we want; or Option 3) We can build a second workflow with different settings and different images attached.

Why these work-arounds are not ideal: Option 1) This creates excess results we don't need, thereby taking more time to process (especially if the jobs are large) and taking up space on the server. Option 2) This clutters the workflow results page, which is not very user-friendly for finding results. It is also unnecessarily time consuming. Option 3) This is exceedingly time consuming and clutters the workflow designer with tons of workflows.

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