[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62430: Bulk Action: Cannot submit bulk action if no items are selected

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#62430: Bulk Action: Cannot submit bulk action if no items are selected
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 Reporter:  jcutler         |       Owner:  joedolson
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  6.7.1
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  6.7
 Severity:  blocker         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jcutler):

 Adding an option will likely be an adequate solution, but not ideal.

 What I'm about to say is something you're probably not going to like, and
 I'll probably sound like a jackass.

 Not performing an action **is** the default behavior, and therefore **is
 the API**. You have no way to quantify the impact of this change on other
 plugins/developers; you may feel that this is a minor inconvenience, but
 you have absolutely no way to know.

 My implementation downloads **all** items from the database in that
 functional area, not just the ones on the screen. There may be hundreds of
 items to download, and I am not expecting my client to change their list
 to show every item, or page through all items, select all on each page,
 and download each page separately. Since you don't know what my
 application does or why your inclination for a solution isn't adequate.

 When I started development on this project five years ago I was actually
 surprised there was no check to see if any list items were selected. I
 doubt I'm the only person that noticed this and put custom functionality
 in place.

 I'm not going to try to persuade you on this any further. It sounds like
 you're likely to do what you want here (a good feature, just years overdue
 with unknown consequences), and for me it will just be a minor waste of my
 time to fix. And I hope that I'm wrong and there isn't a bevy of
 complaints when sites upgrade to 6.7 or higher.

 Sorry for the mini-rant. I don't know how else to have you understand the
 potential impact of a change like this.

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