make it so copying publicly shared files to the share server can be explicitly triggered by clicking a button

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CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud

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make it so copying publicly shared files to the share server can be explicitly triggered by clicking a button #5362

Open williamstein opened 3 years ago

williamstein commented 3 years ago

Right now the copy operation is triggered after about 30 seconds if you edit a file using the CoCalc graphical user interface, and in no other way. Instead (or in addition?) it should be possible by clicking a button, and that button should show the current state. This would also make a lot more sense, because it could take several minutes (or hours) before you're ready to make some content public.

williamstein commented 1 year ago

WORKAROUND: Note that right now clicking the "Published" button to open the publish configuration page does trigger copying all the publicly shared files to the share server. It's just not clearly documented or reflected in the state. However it does actually happen behind the scenes.

So a better description for this ticket would be to clearly display the copy status in that dialog and also the file explorer ui. I think that copy state is easily available to the frontend in a table...