After submitting, user should go to user page with notification

[Jef van Schendel]

I think that once a user is done submitting/naming/ordering his media, he doesn't go to a special "Success" page, but rather back to his user page where his latest images are shown. Or maybe the gallery he posted those images in?

Either way it's probably a good thing if the user can see the new media, as a clear sign that it worked and that it's online. Preferably with an obvious notification that says "Submissions successful! [Upload more media]" or something similar.

[Jef van Schendel]

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[Jef van Schendel]

Jef van Schendel wrote:

Preferably with an obvious notification that says "Submissions successful! [Upload more media]" or something similar.

And after filing this bug I noticed that our bug tracker does pretty much the same thing, as shown in the attachment. :)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Good call. In our case images might not appear immediately and you might have to refresh to see them until we get things nice and ajaxy where new items automatically appear.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

What I mean is that in the meantime it might say "media submitted and will appear here"

[Jef van Schendel]

That sounds like a good stopgap solution to me. :)

How about: "Submission succesfull! Once it's done processing it will appear on this page.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

The way that Zine does this is they keep messages in a "session 'flash' buffer".

    msg = _(u'The entry "%s" was updated successfully.')

flash(msg % escape(post.title))

and later:

def flash(msg, type='info'):
    """Add a message to the message flash buffer.

    The default message type is "info", other possible values are
    "add", "remove", "error", "ok" and "configure". The message type affects
    the icon and visual appearance.

    The flashes messages appear only in the admin interface!
    """
    assert type in \
        ('info', 'add', 'remove', 'error', 'ok', 'configure', 'warning')
    if type == 'error':
        msg = (u'<strong>%s:</strong> ' % _('Error')) + msg
    if type == 'warning':
        msg = (u'<strong>%s:</strong> ' % _('Warning')) + msg

    local.request.session.setdefault('admin/flashed_messages', []).\
            append((type, msg))

This seems like a good idea, having a messaging buffer. This might have been what aaronw was talking about earlier with adding a messaging framework like: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/messages/

[Jef van Schendel]

This bug was fixed at http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/409

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/366 .
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