Better Trash
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AppColl has a "Trash" that deleted items get sent to; items in the Trash can be selectively undeleted if desired. The trash can also be emptied to permanently delete items.
However, there are some aspects of trash that could be vastly improved:
a) For the love of God, make deleting trash items a background task. Right now, if you delete items, you can expect to wait ~3+ minutes/1000 items, and the poor schmuck doing it can't really do anything else in AppColl while the deleting is occurring.
b) The trash should be able to be filtered. For example, I'd like to be able to delete all items in the trash that are more than a month old, but the only way to do that is to go through every page of trash items more than a month old, select all items, and then delete them. At 120 pages of trash items, I'm looking at a minimum of six hours spent doing this, with me having to interact with the system every 3 minutes.
c) Add a setting that lets admins specify a default "permanently delete" age where AppColl automatically permanently deletes items in the trash that are over X days old.
And a minor quibble:
d) There are two buttons: "Permanently Delete" and "Empty Trash." They do the same thing, except that the former only deletes the items that are selected and the latter deletes ALL items in the trash. Maybe they should be relabeled "Permanently Delete Selected Items" and "Permanently Delete ALL Items."
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@gregg_appcoll Ah, thanks for clarifying. Might be worth including some parenthetical text below the "Empty Trash" button to indicate that it has this capability.
Looking forward to using it!
Best,
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@ChristianS9906 you would get this by clicking on the "Empty Trash" button. Thanks.
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@ChristianS9906 How do you get to this interface? Our Trash doesn't have it--although I did just delete a bunch of records and it was noticeably faster--on the order of seconds instead of minutes.
If we can access the age-based drop-down that you show, that would pretty much do the trick for us, I think.
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We have made some progress on your requests.
Deleting trash is now significantly faster. You can also filter items to be deleted as being older than a specific date. See below. We hope this helps.
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@support_appcoll Has there been any progress on this front? Trash has been piling up for another year, and it does not look like the Trash interface has changed at all--still no ability to filter trash items so that you can easily delete only items that were put in the trash prior to a specified date....
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Hi Christian,
You're right. The trash definitely needs some work. We will add this to our engineering list.
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