[alan.f.rice]

Greetings, Mike.

When importing from Dropbox I have several PDF/CSV pairs (books with up to 300 songs in each PDF).  At the "IMPORT->CSV or PDF Bookmarks <- Select Files" screen, each book shows as a list with checkboxes beside each.  If I check all the CSV files and hit OK, only the first selected file is imported rather than looping through the entire list.  The result is I have to run this process for each individual CSV to get them all imported.  While this isn't necessarily a problem for me, many in my group struggle to conceptualize this repetitive task.

So, am I missing something about importing several PDF/CSV pairs into MobileSheets where all these can be imported in a loop?

Thanks.

Al

[mdavej]

You need to import one at a time.

[Zubersoft]

The reason you can't import multiple csv at once is because a UI has to be shown asking you what songs you want to pick from the CSV. If I allowed multiple files, then I would either need to add one tab per file to the dialog (requiring significant UI and backend changes) or I'd have to change the flow entirely so that it displays the dialog for the first CSV, then after you tap OK and the file is imported, then it displays the dialog for the second csv, and so on, which is not much better than just importing one at a time, and also requires significant changes to the code to cache all of the selected files and allow them to be processed one at a time after each import is complete. If I support a mode where the UI is not shown and all songs are automatically added from every selected CSV, that could certainly work, but I'm not sure if that is what you are asking for.

As far as why I allow multiple selection at all, it's because you can pick one CSV and one PDF, and MobileSheets will pair those together instead of looking for the PDF based on the CSV name.

If you are saying you do want me to make the change described above where I cache all the selected files and process them one-by-one after each import is complete, I can do that, but I'd like to hear from more users if they want that, as it will divert my attention away from other requested features.

Mike

[alan.f.rice]

Well, then, let me ask this.   A few years back one thing I did was build the MobileSheets database from scratch code I wrote on my Linux box.   Then I simply plugged in my iPad and transferred the mdb into the storage location.   Did you ever create a back door that, with obscure button presses or whatever, you, as the dev, could upload a db from Dropbox, Box, or Drive?