FR: Reprocess items

[totti4ever]

I am right that I can set the parameters for retrying, but once a document processing has failed I have to chance to re-start it through the UI?

I think it would be quite helpful to have an icon for re-starting after one has fixed some problematic orga/tag names or simply updated the version.

[eikek]

Yes this is right. It's a slightly different intention: restarting while processing is a general retry for long-running tasks. The other situation is to submit the item to processing again. For the latter there is no UI currently. Reason was that you'd only need it rather rarely; I thought most of the time it's easier for one item to simply change what is wrong (like orga/tag name), no? But for new versions, maybe it's better to submit all to reprocessing?

[totti4ever]

My specific problem was the error on classification, which was gone after updating. For this case I would have liked to just restart the processing of the failed files.

Maybe just add two buttons:

1. reprocess all items (after adding information/assigning metadata)
2. reprocess failed

But yes - it would be used rather rarely, true!

[TheOneValen]

I would regard this as an rather important feature. Imagine importing a large (sorted) collection of documents for which you all have to set tags/correspondents/etc. Reprocess them if you setup the most important metadata! Also would be great if the document date would automatically select the suggestion.

[eikek]

But wouldn't it also work, if you first import maybe 50, fix all their metadata and then import the rest?

[TheOneValen]

Sure but you would have to put much more effort into what to import first.

Also also if you refine your tagging you might want to reprocess some files.

Maybe features like re-process all unconfirmed and re-process selected.

[eikek]

There is already an endpoint to submit a single item to reprocessing, but without setting the newly extracted metadata. I thought about extending this to set metadata, but only for new items (as you suggested). I think when going for "reprocess selected", one can click first "unconfirm all" and then "reprocess" when wanting to also update the metadata. wdyt?

[TheOneValen]

That sounds very good, keeps the workflow clean and predictable. :)