As per what it says in the title, for Submittals, it would be great if there's an additional line item at the end of the "download attachments" context window to download all attachments of a given stage as a compiled .zip file, with only the click of a button.
Not being able to do so is really annoying, especially when working with a larger number of attachments (like 51 files for example, which the rest of the components in Submittals do support without much problems). The current practice requires the user to click on each line item to download the attachment file individually.
I am aware of the ability to download the attachments all at once as a .zip file once the Submittal is closed, but it doesn't help when the Submittal is still in-progress and downloading the attachment files of interim stages is needed. All it needs is to extend the zipping utility's capability to the interim stages. A similar .zip file packaging capability is already present in Files when a user tries to download the source files of more than 1 file in a single given instance.
I am aware of the workaround to export the in-progress Submittal as a report (with the files embedded), but that doesn't work for attachments which are not PDF files, and it would not keep PDF files separate & associated with their own filenames.
I am also aware of the workaround to send back the Submittal to the submission author, and request the files to be put in a .zip file prior to uploading it into Submittals, but that would require additional involvement from multiple end-users (inconvenient), in which I don't think should be the right approach to this.
Please help to look into this. A small change here would lead to a great impact in improving the end-user experience for the interim stages of a given Submittal. Thanks in advance.
