Mass Delete missing from Comments screen.

[chrisjdavis]

We need to put the mass delete option back in to the comments admin screens. I have eleventy-billion spam comments that I would like to get rid of, and doing them 20 at a time is no fun.

[ringmaster]

The "mass delete" should be achieved in a different way. Here's what I think the vision was:

When you click the "Select All" checkbox, you should have the option of somehow clicking it again to select all of the items that match the current search. This idea is similar in concept to how GMail allows you to select all of the visible items in a search, and then click a link to select all of the items that qualify for a search. (Looking at how GMail does this is really helpful for illustration purposes.)

Then with all of the search results selected, using the regular delete button would delete truly everything. (Yikes.)

[bjohnson]

I like ringmaster's suggestion.

[tinyau]

+1 for the suggestion of ringmaster.

[dmondark]

I am +1. Maybe when you do a select all, a link will show next to the n selected that will do its magic to select all of the applicable results. As a workaround, now you can do the search, expand the loupe width in the timeline to cover up to 191 items ,use the 'select all' checkbox to delete them.

[Heilemann]

The way dmondark describes it is the way I had it in mind. But then I'm not sure I'd thought about what would happen in the case that you ahve 25.000 comments (like I do), so... Let's just say I'm +1 on ringmaster :)

[Heilemann]

+1 as well.

[arthus]

I have implemented this for everything which uses itemManage – posts, comments, and logs. It also works nicely with paging, so even if you move the timeline after selecting everything it will still show everything as selected. The select all link is placed to the right of the super-checkbox.

[chrismeller]

This was committed in r2455.