I notice in both Drupal 5 and 6, there's not much in the way of edit/delete multiple items. Drupal being the bloated machine that it is, its very time consuming to edit/delete or update one item at a time. It would be great if I could select multiple items and delete, update or edit if need be. This is more about time management then anything else. It takes so long to tweak a Drupal site because every action is a single one only. if you have many url's or pages to edit, things would go faster if there were a select feature. I spend more time clicking and having to clean up url's etc, wish there was a more automated way to do this.

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mantyla commented

You know, this sort of capability does exist, at least for some items. We have a multiple delete mechanism for nodes and comments, and a multiple edit would, of course, be pointless, unless it can be made to affect only a subset of the available fields.

But it is generally a good idea. I have recently spent several hours removing inactive or spam users from a site, 600 in total. In D4.7, I know this can be done now in core.

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Project: Drupal.org infrastructure » Drupal core
Version: » 7.x-dev
Component: Other » usability

Please take a look at project descriptions before posting feature requests - Drupal.org infrastructure is for the maintenance of Drupal.org the website, not for development of Drupal itself.

There's several contributed modules that deal with multiple operations on different things - views mass operations etc. It'd be useful to have multiple operations for, taxonomy terms, path aliases, probably a few more things as well in core (and better filtering on existing screens like node/user administration).

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merlinofchaos commented

Drupal being the bloated machine that it is,

Aside from posting in the wrong place, I'm suspect that this is not the way to get any volunteer developers to listen to you.

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darumaki commented

I apologize for posting in the wrong place, there's so many sections here, difficult to know what's what. An easy to find feature request forum would make perfect sense but as we all know Drupal does things differently that may not make sense to the rest of the world. I know, read all the 1000's of hours of documentation and spend days and weeks on the forums until you find the answer. I did all that, not very helpful :)

As for many third-party modules that can do this, well, that's just not correct. Nothing like I described currently exists in Drupal, personally I believe this should be standard core material but what do I know, I'm just a petty user.

I think partly one issue drupal may face is that it relies heavily on contributed modules to do relatively simple tasks. If there were to be a site-wide edit-delete-update function, they would perhaps need to implement it separately for the different areas as a separate module, although I'm not all that sure how it would be handled.

The bloated remark was positive feedback, being a volunteer developer hasn't nothing to do with how something get said, I'm not here to be your friend, if it offends you get over it. I'm not saying anything that thousands of others haven't already stated.

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mantyla commented

As I already pointed out, you can do mass deletes in current Drupal: nodes, comments and users. There are some other mass operations as well, but edit is not among them, as it would require a way to limit the edit to concern only part of the fields in a given form.

There are no mass deletes or mass operations for taxonomy terms, menu items or url aliases, and there have been times when I would have liked having the last two, so you do have a genuine issue here. But it is hardly fair or even true that Drupal has "nothing like you described".

Oh, and the way you say things has everything to do with being a volunteer developer, just like it has everything to do with being a human being. You may not think of your coworkers as friends, but if you need to ask them for a favor or assistance, you would know that being confrontational or rude is not the way to get them to help you sooner. It is the same way here. Sometimes help simply isn't readily available, but asking for it politely certainly doesn't hurt. I would much rather help a nice person if I had to choose.

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Richard_ commented

I am also looking for the way how to delete mutliple comments within node page or multiple nodes within node-listing page (in forum mostly).

Vbulletin has wonderfull "inline moderation" tool, where next to each thread or post - there is an checkbox and you can choose directly.

However, I choosed Drupal for my new community site, but I am really lucking these sort of admin/moderator features (for nodes, comments, users).

For now Drupal has only adminpanel-site of doing this, which is not really user-friendly (if i am wrong, pls correct me).

There is many many good features with Drupal, but I wish that it will grow also in moderation tools :) I am kinda worried of bad users - hopefully they will avoid my site :-D

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iyan commented

Yep, i'm completely agree with having multiple delete with menu items, as currently i have a site with tens of menu items, and suddenly i need to have the menu to be fully reconfigure, it would spend so much time to delete it one by one. What if I do the deletion of menu items through the database, would it break things?

Thanks!

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bonn commented
Component: usability » ajax system

I wonder if this still active.

Anyway, with current Drupal (6 or 7) modules, how can I build something like this picture http://i.stack.imgur.com/F9SXM.png?

I think the mass checkbox operations can be done with VBO.

I prefer using Views on Drupal 7 though, so any feedback, help, tricks, and suggestions are very appreciated.
Thanks!

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Component: ajax system » other

Yes, you may be interested in VBO and also in Editable Fields (D7 sandbox)

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Automatically closed because Drupal 7 security and bugfix support has ended as of 5 January 2025. If the issue verifiably applies to later versions, please reopen with details and update the version.