Web client - upload and downloading
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:36 pm
Hi
I feel the upload and download tools need a touch of better robustness for different user scenarios. Starting with the flash uploader, if I upload a document when I have no permissions to, the uploader lets you select a document, starts to upload then hangs the whole browser. Going back to a previous post, it would good to just stop a user with read only permissions accessing the upload buttons at all!
With regards to the download Java tool, I have proxy security issues, because the tool is trying to check Java versions (well I guess this is what it is trying to do). This means I got a horrible browser pop-up login dialog box from the proxy - which won't let me do the check (due to proxy security settings) and this freezes the whole application. It would be good to still let the user do the download if they have Java, even if the check fails, as at present the download button is still hidden by the error message (even though I do have Java installed!).
In both instances it is the inability to do anything with the browser when these situations arise, even if it is a cancel button to close the uploader/downloader. Unfortunately most of our users work in similar corporate environments, so at the moment the web client is a bit of challenge to use!
Thanks
Chris
I feel the upload and download tools need a touch of better robustness for different user scenarios. Starting with the flash uploader, if I upload a document when I have no permissions to, the uploader lets you select a document, starts to upload then hangs the whole browser. Going back to a previous post, it would good to just stop a user with read only permissions accessing the upload buttons at all!
With regards to the download Java tool, I have proxy security issues, because the tool is trying to check Java versions (well I guess this is what it is trying to do). This means I got a horrible browser pop-up login dialog box from the proxy - which won't let me do the check (due to proxy security settings) and this freezes the whole application. It would be good to still let the user do the download if they have Java, even if the check fails, as at present the download button is still hidden by the error message (even though I do have Java installed!).
In both instances it is the inability to do anything with the browser when these situations arise, even if it is a cancel button to close the uploader/downloader. Unfortunately most of our users work in similar corporate environments, so at the moment the web client is a bit of challenge to use!
Thanks
Chris