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In portal file browsers, to delete or otherwise update an entity bundle, you must first select the target entity,. From inside a project or folder, there is no quick and convenient way to delete/update multiple files and subfolders, so the aim is to provide a way to bulk select files from within the files browser then select a bulk action to perform on those selected. We introduce a new set of services to provide the mechanism for performing and tracking these jobs. We intend to interface with the already present job tracking widget, which may then be extended for other uses on the portal such as table query tracking.
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