Selected Items Shelf

[steel]

One feature that I find missing in alfresco is the ability to perform an action on multi items.  An action could be any command such as deleting objects, or sending notifications. To achieve this affect an additional shelf group would be necessary to hold the "selected" items.  Objects would have a "select" icon that would put that item in the selected items shelf and in that shelf you could perform a single action on all the items.

Is such a feature in the development pipeline? If not I may just start developing an implementation.

thanks.

[lintonb]

Hi,

This feature is in the pipeline. We are currently at the wireframing stage and the current thinking, and path of least resistance, is to allow a user to add items to the 'clipboard'. The items in the clipboard will have a checkbox allowing the user to unselect if desired and there will be four actions move here, copy here, run action and remove, along with the ability to select all , select none and select by type.

We are also currently wireframing ideas for true multi-select which will hopefully appear in the near future

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,
Linton