[Midas] Renaming an item behavior

Patrick Reynolds patrick.reynolds at kitware.com
Fri Oct 26 19:41:46 EDT 2012


I think this is a feature worth implementing, though.

Thanks,
Patrick Reynolds
Technical Leader
Kitware, Inc.
919 869 8848
On Oct 26, 2012 6:25 PM, "Michael Grauer" <michael.grauer at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> Currently there is no such facility for changing a bitstream name when
> changing an item name iff there is only one bitstream.
>
> This could be accomplished by two consecutive calls the API:
>
> midas.item.create to change the item name,
> midas.bitstream.edit to change the bitstream name
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Gary Wernsing <gary.wernsing at bbmsc.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I have a user who renamed an item and when she downloaded the item was
>> surprised that it had the original name. I explained that she renamed the
>> item but not the bitstream. The issue, which I think she rightly points
>> out, is that in her mind there was a one-to-one relationship between the
>> item and the bitstream BECAUSE there was only one bitstream.
>>
>>  Is there some setting that would allow for the simultaneous changing of
>> item and bitstream name iff there is only one bitstream in an item?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>
>>   *Gary*
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> Thanks,
> Michael Grauer
> R & D Engineer
> Kitware, Inc.
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