Tripal: Need a function to 'unpublish' content

[chunhuaicheng]

Feature Request/Discussion

• [N] does this feature attempt to solve an existing problem with Tripal?
• [x] are you open to developing or collaborating on an extension module if this is not a good fit for Tripal Core (no pressure here -just good to know upfront :-) )
• [N] do you Need this feature ASAP?

Description

We need a function to 'unpublish' content, similar to the 'cleanup orphaned feature' function in Tripal 2

Your Specific Use Case

From time to time, our curators may request to delete data in bulk from underlying chado database. We need a 'unpublish content' function to remove the entities associated with those chado records.

Generally Applicable

Additional information/screenshots

[bradfordcondon]

We (well, @almasaeed2010 ) have added this functionality to our tripal entity helper tool tripal_alchemist for now. If you delete the chado records, then alchemist has a function to "delete orphaned entities" which will remove them.

[chunhuaicheng]

This a great. Thanks @bradfordcondon
Any chance this will be incorporated into Tripal core since this was part of the core functions in T2?

[bradfordcondon]

I will wait to see what other community members/PMC members think. Seems like a good case for including it in the core.

[bradfordcondon]

@spficklin @laceysanderson what are your thoughts on porting this feature into core. This constitutes a new feature and therefore a PMC vote.

[laceysanderson]

I think we should definitely have unpublish functionality in core and with it already written in Tripal Alchemist I think that is an amazing place to start!

So consider this a vote in favor for me 👍

[spficklin]

I agree that it makes sense to have this functionality in core as we had it in Tv2.

[almasaeed2010]

I'll start a new PR to port the functionality over from alchemist.

[almasaeed2010]

PR submitted https://github.com/tripal/tripal/pull/678

[laceysanderson]

Merged so I believe this can be closed 🎉