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PitchInteractiveInc / Phinch

Phinch is an open-source framework for visualizing biological data, funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio in Oakland, CA, and biological researchers at UC Riverside.
http://phinch.org/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Error message as to why a file isn't uploading #15

Open tracykteal opened 10 years ago

tracykteal commented 10 years ago

I tried to upload a file that I hadn't realized didn't include the metadata, because I thought it was already in the BIOM file. It just spun and spun and nothing ever happened. Would it be possible to return a helpful error message as to why it's not uploading? Maybe run it through a test to make sure it has the required info, then return the results of that check to the user if it doesn't upload? Or provide a test where users can test their file before uploading it to the tool? Thanks for your help and the quick feedback on the other issues already!

hollybik commented 9 years ago

We haven't built in any error alert mechanisms during the first phase of development, because the underlying infrastructure was evolving quite rapidly. This is one of our top priorities for our next phase of development though, so stay tuned!