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That was a total brain -> keyboard fail.
The first question still stands. You were talking about the final screen though, I guess. I will look at that. i had a play with this today and it's actually more complicated.
if you just redirect to the file url (causing the download to start on the 'next' button click) you get stuck on that screen with no way to get out of it. you get the next and cancel buttons, which don't make sense anymore, pressing next again will generate an error because the transfer has completed after the file has been sent, and the cancel button will do the same since it can't get the returnurl anymore either, as the transfer is completed. Jerome, I'm tempted to close this 'wontfix' as I think the work that needs to go into it is much greater than the potential gain. Please give your comments tomorrow.
No worries Penny, I close it as "won't fix".
Anyway first I though it was strange from an user point of view to have the download functionality into "Add to Portfolio". It's not the first place I would look in order to download, even if I understand why it's here (like any portfolio, we export the file). I would rather put a link everywhere, next to "Add to portfolio". Thanks for the time spent to look for a better solution  Actually it was really developed as a proof of concept plugin. I'm not really even sure it makes sense to keep in core, I might move it to contrib before 2.0... although it does start to make more sense as more export formats evolve (eg moodle backup)
Can I reopen this? ... I think this could be improved still.
1. The last page says "Portfolio export complete!" when it isn't complete yet . Could this this page instead just start the download and then immediately redirect back to where we came from? (Using JS) Without JS, could it have nice big centered button with "Click here to download your file" and a link beneath it with "Return to Forum: News Forum" (and even better, rewrite the navigation to show the original navigation for the forum plus " -> Portfolio -> Download". And the header could be "Downloading..." ok i think this is much better now.
one last thing that could be improved - currently if you export the same content multiple times it creates a new stage to tell you about it - the confirm stage. at least, if there's no export config it creates a new stage. if there is export config (not in the case of download plugin) you don't notice the difference as you always get that screen. I could make portfolio plugins able to override this and say "don't care about previous exports - skip the confirm stage unless you have other stuff to tell me about (eg actual config options) That would make the download plugin even faster. Thoughts? |
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Portfolio: Download a file
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Do you think it's worthwhile printing the summary of previous exports? That stage gets skipped if it's a first off.
I can skip the config step if there's no config (although I can't guarantee there won't be based on what the calling code needs to know (options) and if there are multiple available export formats)