Cms: A system wide "recycle bin" or "undelete" function

Created on 31 Jan 2017 · 7Comments · Source: craftcms/cms

Created by: Keith Mancuso ([email protected]) on 2015/03/11 01:23:26 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 24

I'd love to see Craft setup some way to "undelete" recently deleted items through some kind of recycling or trash bin.

A lot of systems will move data into the bin and then automatically clear out and actually delete items after 30 days or so.

We had some issues with clients accidentally deleting data and would love to see this instituted system wide

system administration

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angrybrad

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https://github.com/yii2tech/ar-softdelete could be of help.

samdark on 20 Jul 2017

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> Posted by Jason McCallister ([email protected]) on 2015/03/20 17:34:31 +0000

This is a great idea! Maybe something along the lines of a "soft delete" in the database so the data is never actually deleted but element criteria defaults to only records with NULL in the soft deletes column?

Similar to this approach: https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent#soft-deleting

angrybrad on 31 Jan 2017

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> Posted by Nathan Doyle ([email protected]) on 2015/03/11 04:20:14 +0000

This sounds like a great idea for all those folks who are trigger happy.

angrybrad on 31 Jan 2017

This would be great!

groe on 1 Jun 2017

https://github.com/yii2tech/ar-softdelete could be of help.

samdark on 20 Jul 2017

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+ 1 for this, one thing that WP has Craft doesn't that makes sense.

RitterKnightCreative on 25 Aug 2017

We’ve implemented soft-deletes for Craft 3.1.

@samdark Thanks for the tip! We don’t really ever use AR to delete things in Craft, but decided to include that library in case any plugins want to use it.