Alright, thanks a lot.
Reinier
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jasha Joachimsthal <
j.joachimst...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> Hey Reinier,
>
> On 8 March 2010 14:00, Reinier van den Born
> <reinier.van.den.b...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > 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)?
> >
> You're right about that. In most configurations we removed the button.
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> You could or you could just execute it for /binaries and not /content or
> just for resources with type=asset
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > The clipboard itself should be completed (adding found resources to a
> clipboard) but we have not implemented a general use for it (only customer
> specific implementations).
>
> Jasha
>
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > j.joachimst...@onehippo.com - ja...@apache.org
> > >
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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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