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Display the total size of a dataset on the dataset page #6400

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TaniaSchlatter opened this issue Nov 22, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #7047
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Display the total size of a dataset on the dataset page #6400

TaniaSchlatter opened this issue Nov 22, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #7047

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TaniaSchlatter commented Nov 22, 2019

DataverseNL users (per @LauraHuisintveld in the community mailing list - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/IN-ap31FcDU/H9S4C6poBQAJ) would like the total size of a dataset in on the dataset page. This is useful information when downloading all the files of a dataset at once.

This information is not currently included in the dataset redesign.
Somewhat related to:

Questions:

  • What is our current state? We display file sizes. We capture the total byte size of the files.
  • What can we know about download size? When can we know it?
  • How might we display the size? Mockup options for position and formatting, depending on what we know about the size and how we know it.

Ideas:
The goal is to reduce incomplete downloads (the manifest solution), and move the warning earlier in the download experience.

  1. @mheppler reminds that there my be previous mockups with a smart download button that keeps track of size of files selected, and/or number of files selected, and warns if/when "too large"
  2. alternate is to provide info – show total on the page (top of table, for example) and warn if "too large"
  3. alternate is to enable the download for larger size data, whenever a zip is generated. Related: Spike: investigate AWS lambda functions for zip file creation #6093. Depends on AWS, which not all installations are on.
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TaniaSchlatter commented Jan 15, 2020

Rough mockup that takes previous mock ups into account, and visualizes one solution to idea #2, above.

The difficult part of addressing this will be determining what the dataset size is – meaning what is included in the count of a dataset size (#6524).

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