media bulkloading

[GoogleCodeExporter]

New media bulkoader will create bulkloader table for you after you enter the 
data. For media relationships and related values, the related value should be a 
pick (like it is now in Create Media) rather than letting you type a text 
string which will be more prone to errors.

e.g., 
media_relationship_1 = 'created by agent'
media_related_value_1 = 'Joseph Grinnell'

should be able to pick Joseph Grinnell from a window rather than just typing 
the name.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by carla...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2013 at 9:16

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Two other changes to media bulkloader:

1) add a delete record option, so if your regexfind/regexreplace functions 
return files you don't want to load, you can delete them there in the table

2) add function to bulkload media right from bulkloader once you generate the 
table  you want, rather than having to download csv and then re-upload to 
bulkload.

Original comment by carla...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2013 at 3:00

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Reducing priority - this needs more discussion.

This request is things that can be done on the current form and things that 
were not done because adding them would make the form cumbersome, eg, by 
reducing things that can be scripted in via regex. 

I very strongly caution you that a direct loader would be extremely dangerous 
in the hands of most users, who should probably be using the noninteractive 
bulkloader anyway. 

The form seems to work well for the intended audience.

Original comment by dust...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2014 at 5:25

• Changed state: AdvisoryCommittee
• Added labels: Priority-Low
• Removed labels: ACPriority-High, ACPriority-Medium, New-Unknown, Priority-High

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I don't think the form works well for "intended audience" - it is not user 
friendly and doesn't work well for MVZ, who is one of the major users that 
comprise the "intended audience." I don't know who else is using it, but would 
like to get their input and opinion. Let's discuss.

Original comment by carla...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2014 at 6:49

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'm so new to doing this stuff in bulk, that I'm happy I've just got it 
working. I've got a user account at TACC, and I SFTP (using CyberDuck) to a 
dump directory that Chris watches. Every few days he moves that stuff to a 
public directory (http://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/MSB/). I build the URLs by 
copying and pasting a list of files from there into a spreadsheet, and then 
expand it into a bulkload file.  For our first ~3600 TIFFs the data are 
minimal, and now done.  The JPEGs as a multi-page document, with more data, 
will be more challenging.

I tend to sympathize with Dusty's perspective. This a fairly powerful app, with 
plenty of potential to create huge messes.  It's not obvious to me that it can 
be simplified.

Original comment by gordon.jarrell on 4 Feb 2014 at 10:43