Ability to empty archive (delete objects)

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Permanently deleted user

June 10, 2022 12:48 Edited

Hi,

When searching the repository in BD (tab: objects) I currently get archived objects at the top of the dropdown of results. This can be circumvented by searching for an object and pressing enter before the dropdown of search results pops-up, but it is not ideal that I get results from the archive at all in my opinion. Especially at the top of the list of search results. Either put these results at the bottom of the search results dropdown, or better: give admins the ability to permanently delete objects from the archive.

Currently the archive keeps on growing, while there may be hundreds or thousands of archived objects in there that I am no longer interested in seeing. These archived objects also have to be filtered out of your reports.

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  Sebastiaan Bosman

  February 06, 2023 10:07

  Hi @..., 

  As an update to your wish: in our upcoming release, we're optimizing the object search functionality, meaning that active/archived objects will automatically be filtered in your search results. 
  
  To Rob Pierweijer and Ralph van Zandt, a "permanently delete" option is currently not on our roadmap for 2023. We will add it to the backlog for 2024 evaluation, though. 

  Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. 
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  Rob Korving

  June 10, 2022 14:01

  I don't really agree with your solution. Just an "search archive" option should be sufficient for searching (default unchecked of course).
  However being able to delete archived objects is also really needed. A slight mistake in naming already creates an archived object with no use what so ever.

   

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  Rob Pierweijer

  July 04, 2022 09:34

  I think the current searching solution is sufficient. A enhancement is when you navigate to other parts of BlueDolphin and re-enter the object search part archive is no longer selected.

  Also I think that the option for admins to remove objects when they are in archive is a must. I'm not interested in what is deleted a couple of months ago or was created by accident, test and so on. The current situatie only creates a list that one on uses as there is to much crap in it.

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  Ralph van Zandt

  January 26, 2023 08:18

  +1 from me.
  Besides cluttering the search results I also encountered strange behavior when recreating the object with the same name and recreate relations which exists on the deleted object. Certain relations appeared double referring to the old object and could therefor not be deleted.

  Also as mentioned before by @..., over the years the archive grows and grows and I can imagine this will impact performance as well.

  So a "permanently delete" option would be very much appreciated

   

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  Sebastiaan Bosman

  February 06, 2023 10:10

  To Ralph van Zandt, 

  We haven't heard about the strange behavior you mention, so thank you for bringing it to our attention. Could you please create a ticket for this, so it is logged more effectively with us? 

  As always, let us know if you have any questions. 

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