Preflight Resource FIX Feature

[Sam Neil]

Apologies if this has been asked before but can you please consider adding a "FIX ALL" button for Preflight if there are multiple files/resources that have been modified like attached screen. It makes life much easier and less errors and time scrolling up and down finding the modified files.

[Old Bruce]

I would deal with the Linked Resources with a trip to the Resource Manager.

[Sam Neil]

10 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I would deal with the Linked Resources with a trip to the Resource Manager.

It would be the same. an "UPDATE ALL" button would be in order - unless I have missed something here. My point is to process multiple files in one go.

[GarryP]

Are you suggesting that a “Fix All” button should be available only for fixing all “Linked Resource has been modified” errors, or that a “Fix All” button should be available at any time to fix all the errors that are there?
If the former, “Fix All” would be badly-named if there were mixed errors as the user could expect all errors to be fixed but some would not be.
If the latter, how would that work with mixed errors?

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Sam Neil said:

It would be the same. an "UPDATE ALL" button would be in order - unless I have missed something here. My point is to process multiple files in one go.

Why not just configure the app to update the files automatically? That's a setting in Preferences.

[Sam Neil]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

Are you suggesting that a “Fix All” button should be available only for fixing all “Linked Resource has been modified” errors, or that a “Fix All” button should be available at any time to fix all the errors that are there?
If the former, “Fix All” would be badly-named if there were mixed errors as the user could expect all errors to be fixed but some would not be.
If the latter, how would that work with mixed errors?

The idea was rather than me going to each individual resource and press the "FIX" button, I would have one button that would do this (Based on my screenshot).

[Sam Neil]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Why not just configure the app to update the files automatically? That's a setting in Preferences.

Walt - I think your suggestion is the best given what we have.

[GarryP]

18 hours ago, Sam Neil said:

The idea was rather than me going to each individual resource and press the "FIX" button, I would have one button that would do this

I’ll ask the question in a slightly different way:
“If there were multiple types of errors reported – Linked Resource has been modified, Overflowing text frame, Missing Font, Bleed Hazard, etc. etc. - what should the ‘Fix All’ button do?”

[Sam Neil]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

I’ll ask the question in a slightly different way:
“If there were multiple types of errors reported – Linked Resource has been modified, Overflowing text frame, Missing Font, Bleed Hazard, etc. etc. - what should the ‘Fix All’ button do?”

Good question - What I meant was only relating to external resources being modified. The Fix all would be essentially a manual button to trigger what Walt suggested - But now the option that it does automatically (preferences) answers my request. I am working on a very heavy image based book and the images get updated quite frequently and this was the reason but the boys at Serif had already thought of this and had an option which I had not seen.

[walt.farrell]

Alternatively, for those who might not want the updating to happen while they're working on the document, the Resource Manager could have an Update All button, which would be more focused than a "Fix All" in the Preflight processing, and avoid the problem that Garry brought up, 

[Sam Neil]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Alternatively, for those who might not want the updating to happen while they're working on the document, the Resource Manager could have an Update All button, which would be more focused than a "Fix All" in the Preflight processing, and avoid the problem that Garry brought up, 

Brilliant Walt. This is EXACTLY what I wanted an poorly explained!!!!!!