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John O'Keefe 88e3de606c docs(admin): processing issues page — per-library scan-failure ledger
Third admin page. Documents the severity stat cards (errors/warnings/
info, cards only appear when non-zero), the per-issue card fields, and
the three actions with their real semantics: Retry (per-item scanner
re-run — success closes the issue, failure surfaces the real error),
Retry all (sequential queue with done/total progress, deliberately not
a library-wide scan), Dismiss (warnings/info only, confirm-guarded;
errors cannot be dismissed). Links to scanning.md for the retry-vs-
library-scan distinction. Glossary gains Retry, Retry all, Dismiss.
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Processing Issues

Processing Issues is each library's ledger of items the scanner could not fully process — a corrupt file, an unsupported format, metadata that wouldn't parse. It is per-library: you reach it from that library's panel on the Libraries page (the link only appears when the library has issues).

What's on the page

Three count cards — Errors, Warnings, Info — show how many open issues sit at each severity (a card only appears when that severity has issues). Below them, one card per issue showing:

  • the item's title and a plain-language description of what went wrong
  • Type, Format, File (full path), and Library type
  • a severity badge: red for errors, amber for warnings, neutral for info

Fixing an issue

Retry

Runs that one item back through the scanner. This is a per-item scan — the item's file is re-read and re-extracted exactly like a book-page Rescan, not a pass over the library. If it succeeds, the issue closes itself; if it fails again, the page shows the real error, so you know why it still fails instead of staring at a stale complaint.

Retry all

Queues every issue currently on the page and works through them one at a time — the button shows progress as "done / total" while the queue drains. This is deliberately not a whole-library scan: fixing a handful of bad files never re-reads the good ones. Per-issue Retry buttons are disabled while the queue is running.

When the queue finishes, the page refreshes itself from the server — closed issues disappear, still-failing ones stay with fresh error text.

Dismiss

Closes an issue without re-processing — for warnings and info items you've looked at and judged fine (a confirm dialog guards the click). Errors cannot be dismissed: they must be fixed and successfully retried. The Dismiss button simply doesn't exist on an error card.

How issues get here and leave

The scanner creates an issue whenever it fails to process an item during a scan. Issues leave the page three ways: a successful Retry (or any later scan that processes the item cleanly), a Dismiss you chose for a warning or info item, or the file's problem being fixed on disk and the next scan handling the item cleanly.