One of the biggest bottlenecks with the administration of aliases is editing and deleting them. Currently, each alias must be individually edited or deleted. When some configuration goes awry (like this), it's a pain to manually delete or modify entries.

To resolve this, the pathauto module should have a checkbox in place of the edit and delete links, with an action combo box at the bottom of the page. Mass delete would simply list all selected aliases on the confirmation page; the mass edit would list text boxes for all selected aliases.

This functionality would be a great benefit to the module. Unfortunately, my abilities do not lie in programming, so I am unable to add this functionality myself. I hope someone sees value in this request and implements it.

Nick

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NickHBO commented

Oops, forgot to link "(like this)" to this bug. I wish we had an edit button for root issue nodes :(

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Nick - I think you may be confusing the Path module and the Pathauto module. It would be possible to do what you are saying in pathauto, but the proper place for the change, in my opinion, is within the path module itself.

Are you talking about the page at http://www.example.com/admin/path ?

If you want to delete all your aliases, I suggest that you simple go into your database and use this command:

delete from url_alias;

If you use phpMyAdmin or a similar gui then there is probably a button for emptying/deleting the data in the table.

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NickHBO commented
Project: Pathauto » Path
Version: 4.7.x-1.x-dev »

I see, I was indeed confused. Sorry to stick this here when it belongs under the Path module. I'll reassign it now.

Also, thanks for the suggestion; I have been using phpMyAdmin as a temporary solution.

Nick