How bulk delete entity on entity list?

hi,

i create a patch and hope it will help

update patch
using views vbo create a tab in 'admin/structure/entity-type/{$enity_type}/bulk_manage'
it is easy to use this ui

This sounds like a good approach. It might be worth converting all admin pages to views.

See: #1434224: Change entity admin pages to use Views

Hi

I think I'm having the same problem.
Currently have about 50 entities I would like to delete in my bundle list but when I select them all, there is no group delete button?

Is this patch related?
How can I delete all the selected entries?

Right now, I only have the option to delete each entity one by one which is taking a lot of time.

Any suggestions thanks.

Barry

Use views bulk operations and create your own view. That way you can add whatever fields you like.

Thanks imclean

Not sure how to do this, do you have any information on the setup? And do I need to download the patch?
I'm also writing EFQs which display my entities, not currently using views for the output if that makes any difference?

Barry

No need for any patch. Make sure you have Views and VBO installed and enabled. Create a new View of the type of your custom entity and add what fields you'd like.

Make one of the fields a VBO action field (I think it's called).

Adding exposed filters let you list entities based on whatever criteria you'd like then you can mass-delete them as required.

Cool, just reading up on VBO before I get everything installed, first time I've heard of this.

Create a new View of the type of your custom entity and add what fields you'd like.

Would I need to match the fields in the bundle?

Barry

Well, can we remove the checkboxes from builtin display then? Because i checked them all and there are no action buttons or anything, they are useless.

Agreed, checkboxes that do nothing is terrible UX. Adding the delete button is probably easy and will make the the checkboxes useful. Hopefully that is what the patch that I have not looked at does.

Let's get some eyes on the patch by setting it to needs review.

FYI, this works in #2 but it would be nice if it replaced the existing listing that has the dead checkboxes with this one.

@fmizzell would you be willing to add views and VBO as a dependency? It does make short work of this.

+++ b/modules/eck_bulk_manage/eck_bulk_manage.info
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+files[] = eck_bulk_manage.view_default.inc

This is minor but you don't need to include this file in files[]. Files[] really is just a autoloaderesque thing for classes.

I have not looked at the code, but would it be possible to make it a soft dependency?: If views and vbo are there, then lets give them the nice table with the integration, otherwise, the simple table without the useless checkboxes.

Soft dependency sounds good, there seems to be one on views. The only problem I see with the current implementation is that it's creating a new view for each entity type because they each have a base_table. I wonder if that can be abstracted somehow so that one view can represent all eck base_tables?

1. Left that loop of base_tables in.
2. Moved the default view to eck's views folder.
3. Wrapped the VBO fields with a module_exists() check.
4. Removed some of the extra VBO actions because they didn't work or were just extra(can add them back easy enough).
5. Turned off table_select on the other table.
6. Changed the view & tab name and url to be a bit more generic.

@todo

1. Currently doesn't override the bundle entity list but puts a more generic entity list with a bundle filter.
2. Label could be added or replace the ID column.
3. The row operations could use a separator.

This can be improved a bunch I'm sure but just trying to push this idea forward a bit.

Great, I will try