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irods-contrib / metalnx-web

Metalnx Web Application
https://metalnx.github.io/
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Support queries in remote zones #329

Open alanking opened 1 year ago

alanking commented 1 year ago

It is possible to navigate to collections and data objects in a remote zone which is federated with the zone to which the Metalnx service is connected. It is not possible to run queries in said zones, hindering data discovery. There should be an option for running queries similar to the -z option for iquest which specifies the zone in which the query is to be run.

trel commented 1 year ago

I would suggest a multi-select option in a federated deployment... with the default being the local zone, but a sticky preference being available to the user in the preferences settings.

If 'all zones' is a thing that is interesting, then we have to consider the paging logic of the results. Or we open a new tab with results from each selected zone, each with its own paging...

JustinKyleJames commented 1 year ago

We discussed this and decided to move it to milestone 3.0.0 because the solution will require some UI changes to properly handle paging.

Either the query will be per zone or the results will be in separate tabs by zone. There is not a clean way to stitch a large result set into a clean pageable list.