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 [email protected] - [email protected] www.onehippo.com Amsterdam - Hippo B.V. Oosteinde 11 1017 WT Amsterdam +31(0)20-5224466 San Francisco - Hippo USA Inc. 185 H Street, suite B, Petaluma CA 94952 +1 (707) 7734646 On 5 March 2010 14:45, Reinier van den Born <[email protected]>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 > > Reinier van den Born > HintTech B.V. > > T: +31(0)88 268 25 00 > F: +31(0)88 268 25 01 > M: +31(0)6 494 171 36 > > Delftechpark 37i | 2628 XJ Delft | The Netherlands > www.hinttech.com<javascript:void('http://www.hinttech.com');> > > HintTech is a specialist in eBusiness Technology ( .Net, Java platform, > Tridion ) and IT-Projects. > Chamber of Commerce The Hague nr. 27242282 | Sales Tax nr. > NL8062.16.396.B01 > ******************************************** > Hippocms-dev: Hippo CMS 6 development public mailinglist > > Searchable archives can be found at: > MarkMail: http://hippocms-dev.markmail.org > Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/Hippo-CMS-f26633.html > > ******************************************** Hippocms-dev: Hippo CMS 6 development public mailinglist Searchable archives can be found at: MarkMail: http://hippocms-dev.markmail.org Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/Hippo-CMS-f26633.html
