Deleting pages

[nils73]

Deleting pages and other stuff is kind of dangerous right now if JavaScript is disabled. Would it be possible to have checkboxes like you have in webmail-accounts, to check what pages you would like to delete, then have JS let you confirm it (if activated) and then delete via submit?

Regards,
Nils

[Ted]

I agree.  I've actually been toying with just writing it in very quickly.  The only issue comes with deleting parent pages and whether they should delete the children...

[LeisureLarry]

Yeah that would be cool. Marking pages to delete just like in phpmyadmin.  And deleting childern with their parents would be great

[kermit]

maybe a trash bin to hold deleted items?

[nils73]

wishy,

if I am not mistaken CMSMS has the ability to identify, if an element is a parent element to other elements grouped below. So what about a second checkbox to each parent element, allowing you to delete parent plus sub-pages?

Regards,
Nils

[Ted]

Well, the absolute quickest possible way to implement it would be to only allow you to delete pages with no children.

But with the children stuff, then it's a matter of figuring out which children are there and then showing a screen that says what pages are about to be deleted.

[nils73]

I just did a quick copy & paste with photoshop to illustrate what I mean. During the weekend I searched my brain for a CMS I used to use where deleting pages was solved this way.

HTH
Nils

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[Ted]

Well, I don't see the 2 checkboxes as making much sense to most users.  I'll probably go with the 2nd page showing the children that are affected by the delete.

[nils73]

Maybe I overlooked something but I just played with the beta and find it very annoying to manually delete the content. But I must say that I like the concept of a demo-page being installed as something to play with.

Maybe 0.12 should include a "delete demo-content" somewhere ...

Regards,
Nils

BTW: I just did it via SQL ... but I wouldn't recommend that for just anybody