Hi Jasha,
I see. But don't you have the same workflow problem with the search/replace
action (which is supported right now, or isn't it)?
Anyway, my users want this multiple delete functionality especially for
assets for which we don't have workflow configured.
So I could, for instance, only enable this functionality if the search is
restricted to assets.
Not sure what you mean by the clipboard, but it may be what I looking
for.The functionality I am referring to was to have a checkbox in the search
result,
allowing the user to create a subselection to be subjected to an action
(search/replace, or, as in my case, delete).
There is some code in place intended to support these kind of selections
that makes me optimistic. Some examples:
layout.xsl: has actions selectAll, unselectAll, addToShelf (clipboard is
menioned there as well, so...)
searchReplaceAll.xsl makes a disctinction between a BATCHSCOPE_SELECTION and
BATCHSCOPE_ALL.
On the other hands in some places (sitemap) code is missing or (layout.xml)
there is only a TODO...
Feeding my fear that the implementation is incomplete. Or is it just a
matter of enabling it?
Thanks,
Reinier
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jasha Joachimsthal <
j.joachimst...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> Hi Reinier,
>
> the main reason not to implement this, is that if you do it in a clean way,
> you have to check for each document if that user has the correct workflow
> permission to actually delete it. Regular authors only have permission to
> request deletion through the workflow but the repository itself doesn't
> make
> a distinction between write and delete permissions. Checking the workflow
> for a huge amount of documents is a rather expensive operation.
> There is indeed functionality to put search results in a clipboard. There's
> no general implementation for it but it could be used to store the
> documents
> you want to delete.
>
> Jasha Joachimsthal
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> On 5 March 2010 14:45, Reinier van den Born
> <reinier.van.den.b...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hello Hippo community,
> >
> > Our content editors would like a more convenient way to delete large
> > quantities of obsolete assets.
> > Not without risk of course, but in an environment that has a lot of
> quickly
> > changing content, I can see their point.
> >
> > The best location to add functionality like that, I think, would be the
> > Search tab.
> >
> > I guess it should not be too difficult to add a delete button (next to
> > go-to
> > and edit) to resources, but this doesn't improve much.
> > It also doesn't seem hard to do a "delete all" of the resources in the
> > search result, but it may be hard/impossible to tune the search so that
> it
> > will result in exactly the assets to be removed.
> >
> > So I am thinking there should be a way to select resources from the
> search
> > result and delete only them.
> > Now in the Search tab implementation (6.05.08) I found (traces of) a
> > mechanism allowing the user to select resources from the search results
> and
> > perform a search/replace on them. If it works it seems this mechanism
> could
> > be (re)used.
> >
> > My questions:
> > - do you have any thoughts on the above? Was it ever considered/dismissed
> > to
> > add this functionality?
> > - is the selection mechanism functional (for search/replace) and would
> > there
> > be a reason it cannot be used for deletions as well?
> > - any other advice/suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Reinier
> >
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