topic Re: Usability with Long Running Custom Actions in Share in Alfresco Archive

Usability with Long Running Custom Actions in Share

vamirr — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:40:13 GMT

I'm having usability issues with long running custom actions in Share. After triggering the custom action, the user does not know it's been triggered, and that it is actually running. It appears that current configuration patterns don't satisfy situations in which the custom action is not inst

Re: Usability with Long Running Custom Actions in Share

loftux — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:40:13 GMT

Have a look at alfresco.js (search for PopupManager). In there you will find several options for dialogs. Possibly you could pop up a modal dialog with information about that it could take a long time and the modality prevents repeat clicks.

For examples of how to use those dialog, search alfresco client javascript.

Re: Usability with Long Running Custom Actions in Share

vamirr — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:10:16 GMT

Loftux,

Thank you, this got me what I needed.