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icon6.gif   Attach multiple (many!) files at one time, posted by Eric Feng on Sun Mar 21 19:03:52 2010 
    icon2.gif   Re: Attach multiple (many!) files at one time, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Mar 22 08:58:47 2010 
       icon2.gif   Re: Attach multiple (many!) files at one time, posted by Eric Feng on Tue Apr 6 00:45:10 2010 
Message ID: 66777     Entry time: Mon Mar 22 08:58:47 2010     In reply to: 66776     Reply to this: 66781
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.7.8-2278 
Subject: Re: Attach multiple (many!) files at one time 

Eric Feng wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to attach multiple files at one time?  Right now I have to attach each individually, click submit, then confirm, then re-select the next file...

This is a pain if one is attaching many files as I often want to do.  It would be nice to be able to select groups of files together using Ctrl and/or Shift, and even to attach a whole directory recursively.

I looked through previous threads but did not find this question asked there.

Thanks,

Eric

This is a well known problem, but unfortunately it's a limitation of HTML and how web browsers work. If it would be easy to attach whole directories to HTML forms, it would be too easy to steal important files from your computer. So the HTML designers decided that each file hast to be confirmed manually, and that's why you have to click so often. There is no way ELOG could bypass this scheme. 

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