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Jeremy Palmer
I am importing new records into one of my apps with 302 photo references. Some of the photo references are recycled from previous inspections in the same app; others have been sourced from other apps, for which I have downloaded (and resized) copies with the original photo IDs and included them in the zip file.
At Review Issues stage, I get multiple warnings which I want to ignore, as follows.
  1. Recycled Images from the same app.
There are large numbers of "issues" worded like this:
Photo file 'db085181-cb02-483d-97ec-47abec0ed0da' for photo field with data name 'bb_reference_photos' does not exist in the uploaded file. A reference to the photo will be added to the record, but the photo file will have to be uploaded later.
This wording is misleading. The image already exists in that app, but attached to another record (the latest survey of the same feature). So I don't need to upload the file later, I can just ignore this.
  1. Recycled images from other apps (in the zip file).
There are also several "issues" like this:
Photo 'd4562d6f-696d-4dcb-b755-065717e63ea7' for photo field with data name 'bb_reference_photos' is being used in another app. Since the actual photo file is included in the import, a new photo identifier will be created for this photo.
Really, this isn't an issue at all, since the importer will resolve it using my attached photo.
Apart from the misleading wording, the real problem is the sheer number of issues flagged, which are difficult to scan visually, in case there are real issues hidden among them that do require my attention.
Today, there were four such issues, since my zip file didn't contain all the images I needed, but I completely missed them until I got to the Summary page, where it was immediately obvious there was something wrong.
Since there were, in fact, only four missing images in my zip file, could the importer please stop reporting non-issues and/or aggregate error messages so I don't have to scan through several screenfuls to see if I have a problem.
(I'd also like cross-referencing images in other apps
not
to be an error, but I've made a separate feature request for this.)
July 22, 2024