New notification badges in the UI

[joshmoore]

During TiM, there was a discussion about a plugin which would detect unimported files. Would it be possible for a plugin to be added somewhere in the current UI such that a small badge could be shown, like the scripts widget which shows when there's an error?

[will-moore]

How would we detect unimported files? Would it be the same for all users or need some custom config?

The places in the UI for adding "plugins" are small (open-with, right & centre panels, static top-link). To add another to that list would be possible but a fair bit of work.
It would be simpler just to add the feature directly. Is this something that would be generally useful?

Another option is to use one of the hooks/blocks where you can add arbitrary JavaScript to the page, and use this code to update the page as desired, since any page manipulations are possible with JavaScript (global scope etc).

Options for doing that include within a Open-with option, or as part of right and centre panels, or by extending the page template and using the {% block script %} extension point.

[joshmoore]

How would we detect unimported files? Would it be the same for all users or need some custom config?

There are several threads on image.sc where there's been an error -- format not supported, etc. It's basically the "any fileset without images" HQL.

Is this something that would be generally useful?

I think so, but this might start to grow. Having it as something pip installable might be less messy initially.

cc: @Tom-TBT

[Tom-TBT]

That could be useful in different ways:

• Find back files from the server that failed at upload (still would need an admin to get them back). Thinking of people who got rid of the local copy too quickly
• Be able to clear out storage space. "Those are my 50 GB of failed imports, I can delete these after the recent successful upload"
• Using these as reports for the OMERO admins to find users with frequent issues

An idea was to put it close to the webadmin page, for example next to the statistics of storage used.