[udig-devel] Fw: Question about the Tree view in Catalog tab

[Jesse Eichar]

Some of these issues are feature requests in the JIRA and others  
should be :-).

> Hello,
>
> The tree structure in the Catalog tab seems to consist of only two
> levels.  Yet, in the screenshot for the Mozambique/Populations at  
> Risk,
> there is a nice tree structure with folders and subfolders.   If I am
> importing thousands of shapefiles, and they are organized by category,
> then state, then county (in corresponding folders), it would be  
> nice to
> show that directory structure, so the compressed catalog view is  
> not so
> gigantic.   I cannot seem to import a folder, just a single shapefile.
> Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
Currently you cannot add a directory...  I admit that it is an  
issue.  What you can do is create a dropAction extension that accepts  
directories.  A simpler way would be to create a new action that  
opens a directory explorer allowing the user to explore the  
filesystem and choose a directory.  Then the action would add all the  
files in the directory using the ServiceFactory.acquire() method.

Jesse

>
> In a similar vein, it would be great to have "active" categories in  
> the
> Layers tab.  By active, I mean that you can perform functions normally
> done on a single layer, and they would apply to all layers below.  For
> example, if I have 25 county road layers and I want to change the  
> style
> for all of them, I could put those layers under a Roads category, and
> make the change only once.
>
>  Thanks.
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