What does lower pane do?

[johntaylor]

Hi All,

I'm new to DAM thinking, but find it meets a real need.  I greatly appreciate the thoughtful effort and genuine helpfulness of Peter K., Marc R. and John B. -- among others.  The DAM Book 2 is a godsend, already dog-eared. This forum is also a big help.

I'm learning EM2 - with all its quirks, instabilities and frustrations, and am finding the Help file close to useless.  I'm making good progress though, but am stumped on one thing that seems it should be obvious.  Below the List|Thumbnail|Media panel is another panel, hidden until you press the + (toggle) sign at the bottom of the right scroll bar.  I see brief text there during autosaves, but never see anything else.  What is its function?

Thanks,

John

[Dierk]

It's a progress bar pane. For longer operations, like saving a large catalogue or importing loads of files, it will show a progress bar. Most of the time. Regrettably it doesn't always, especially unfortunate since xMedia does multi-tasking.

[johntaylor]

Thanks Dierk,

It seems like a lot of screen real estate devoted to just that, especially since some other processes show their progress status in pop-ups.

John

[Dierk]

Clearly the idea behind the pane is good, and it was requested by many users [of iView Media Pro] to make better use of the circling gear. Like the GPS/map feature the implementation is ... lacking.

Like you note, some tasks still use modal message windows as progress bar, thus hindering the user to do anything else. As I wrote before, the progress pane isn't very reliably, often enough not showing anything even if clearly some tasks are going on [personal favourite: long catalogue saves]. Curiously the gear indicator cannot be trusted either, sometimes it doesn't show anything, other times it moves and moves and moves though no task is running.

It has been so quiet around xMedia - marketing and development - that I harbour the hope they are really hard working on many of the known inconsistencies, bugs, feature requests, wishes for v3 [v2.5 won't cut it except for money, that is, many users will want a fully functional version without paying anew].