Power Edit grows up a little…

Power Edit, LibraryThing's way of making certain mass edits, has grown up a little. The "flow" of it has changed. Formerly the feature launched "page," which took a long time to appear, when an edit was large, and caused a lot of members to give up and layer Power Edit on Power Edit. Now it launches a progress bar, which is "modal" (ie., you can't get out of it). The progress bar isn't perfect, but it marches along and should therefore reduce anxiety and double-use of the feature.

Power Edit can be found on Your books. It's the little yellow lightning bolt.

Example:

Guilty as charged. Impatient I am. Glad to see the bar!

It's working great for me. Also the deselecting problem seems to no longer be an issue.

I've done a few big media power edits and found that the new progress bar quit part way through with a false error message about another power edit operation running. However, the edit process itself kept going. This was easy to track by reloading the media view of my catalog from time to time and watching the numbers change.

The progress bar quit out on even some fairly small tasks (40 or 50), not just the really big ones in the hundreds or thousands. It did get through some even smaller tasks at 20 or fewer records.

Hey -- I was coming to the new media thread to ask if there was some improvement to the power edit code. And I checked New Features first and saw this thread. Great! I'm happy with the deselecting fix. Yaay!

Possible bug, or more likely, code working as intended but needing to be improved because "as intended" isn't quite right:

The "deselect all books" counter doesn't decrement when the selected items are not visible on the page (because the collection is sorting by the field that was power-edited). But it does decrement when you view a different page.

More specifics: I have a collection of "interesting"; I am sorting it by "media" (sub-sorting by author). I went to the end of the list to start moving all the book-related media items to just plain "book". I selected about 15 titles from the last page to convert to plain "book". Power-edit completed and those items, now classed as "book", sorted back into the many items classed as "book", so they are spread across hundreds of other such items. None of them are displayed on my current page (the end of the collection, all book>paper book> hardback and other similar items). When I choose "deselect all books" the counter does not decrement but stays "15 books selected".

BUT when I go to a different page now the counter decrements to 0.

>6 lquilter: I am seeing the same behaviour. I look at all my books that are tagged "Check media". Then I select the ones for which I want to change the media. I power edit the media on those books. Then I power edit those same selected books to remove the tag "Check media". They disappear from the page, but power edit still says that that many books are selected. I have to refresh the page to make the counter reset.

>6 lquilter: Sorry I'm just seeing this! I think that may be a bug. I just tested and confirmed. You *can* click "select all books on page" which will add to the books already selected (it will appropriately change the counter), but clicking "deselect all books" still keeps those original books in the counter.

And as I'm testing it further there seems to be some odd quirks to it. Can you post your bug report in the Bug Collectors Group (http://www.librarything.com/groups/bugcollectors) so we can investigate it further? Sorry for the trouble. Let me know if you have any questions. You can reply to my profile (@kristilabrie) or email me at info@librarything.com!

Did this get posted on Bug Collectors? If so, what is the direct link?

Okay, the problem was that deleting a book had a built-in delay. I've refactored the code and it should no longer be a problem.