firefox-scrapbook-maf-creator partially without function

WebSkater commented 8 years ago

Hi, firefox-scrapbook-maf-creator works great this way: sidebar -> right click on 1 item -> create MAFF

if going to: sidebar -> tools -> manage -> selecting 2 or all items -> right click -> create MAFF there seems to be no function. using this way is extremely valuable if you want to converts hundreds of scrapbook pages and I hope there is a way to get it working.

sorry for bad description, but I'm no pro when it comes to programming.

regards, WebSkater

WebSkater commented 8 years ago

forgot to mentio I'm using "scrapbook_x-1.12.30"

WebSkater

pascallothar commented 8 years ago

Indeed! For me also, it doesn't function this way!

While waiting for a fix, you can perhaps (?) find a work-around to the expected behavior in simply gathering the items into one or more Folders and "create MAF" of each of the Folders. Don't forget to check or uncheck the check box "Store multiple sites in one archive" in "MAF Creator Options ..." depending on the result you expect.

Have also a look to the add-on (made also by Danny Lin and also integrated in "ScrapBook X") "ScrapBook X File Converter" [https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/scrapbookx-converter/]:

sidebar -> "tools" -> "import/export" -> drag and drop the items you want.
Then, sidebar -> "tools" -> add-on functions -> "File converter" -> "Convert Scrapbook data to .maff" -> for "Input", browse to your export directory -> browse to the "Output" directory -> Choose "Scrapbook ID" (for "the top directory name" inside the .maff archive you will create (that you can unzip if you rename the .maff extension in .zip)) if you expect the same behavior as "create MAF" -> check or uncheck "Merge output into one file" depending if you want a bunch of .maff files or only one opening into a bunch of tabs.

pascallothar commented 8 years ago

@danny0838 , Usually you post an answer or you add a label. So I thought that, perhaps, you have forgot to read this issue. If not, sorry to have supposed this :-)

danny0838 commented 8 years ago

Currently most ScrapBook commands do not support acting on a multiple selection, this is because a multiple selection can potentially include many item types and some of them ought not be a valid object for some some commands, and to check whether all selected items are valid objects is a lot more complicated technically. We'll consider improving this but it could be defered as it is not so "emergent" compared to other issues.

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