Bulk deletion of asset Categories, Suppliers, Manufacturers...

[hmacugova]

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Describe the bug Hi, I have the same problem as in "Bulk deletion of asset models #3416" but with all another assets: Category, Suppliers, Manufacturers, etc - like in the picture. I cannot delete all assets on one time/click

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Settings'
2. Click on 'Categories, Manufacturers, Suppliers...'
3. Scroll down to '....'
4. See error

Expected behavior I would have there something like "select all and delete all".

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[BoomCheeseBurge]

Apologies for my intervention, but is it intentional for there to not be a bulk deletion feature for Categories, Manufacturers, Suppliers, Locations, and Companies? I am asking this because I imported the data samples provided in this link: https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/importing

I regret importing those data and would like to delete all of them. However, I am not going to delete them one by one by hand as that would be a hellish tedious task.

I am fairly new to this, so pardon me if I am not aware of any obvious solution to this matter. Thanks.

Snipe-IT Documentation

Importing Assets and More

There is a Web GUI importer available in the Import section that will allow you to upload and process and import a comma-delimited CSV through the web interface. The importer may choke on larger imports, so if you have more than several hundred records to import, you may wish to use the command-line...

[rqi14]

Seconded. Really need this functionality. It is now available for assets but not for other things.

[Bresel1]

Hey, is anyone reading this. I found several requests for this topic. It is impossible to delete hundreds of accessories or anything else for that matter by hand. Yet it would be good to have the option of splitting up accessories from the actual asset overview. I now imported my accessories as assets due to the option not being there in the actual accessories section. It's just a simple checkbox next to the items, it's already implemented in other categories. I'm not a dev, but it can't be that hard?

[snipe]

Hey, is anyone reading this. I found several requests for this topic.

Then it should have been closed as a duplicate to prevent polluting the request stream.

It is impossible to delete hundreds of accessories or anything else for that matter by hand.

If any of them are actually assigned, it gets a lot more complicated as to how we convey (if we allow the partial delete) what didn't work.

It's just a simple checkbox next to the items, it's already implemented in other categories

The relationships and database structure are are actually pretty different.

I'm not a dev, but it can't be that hard?

We release every two weeks, with thousands of commits a year. If it was easy, it would have been done.

It's logged on our internal task list. It's on thew roadmap, all I can tell you at this point. We're also trying to upgrade the backend framework again, the UI framework (which would have a direct impact on this particular issue) and are trying not to setourselves or users up for failure by going half-cocked on this. We have some harder things to handle before this becomes as easy are you presume it is.

[spencerrlongg]

I'm pretty close to being finished with this, just need to write some tests and do some cleanup, should be done with it by Monday morning. (Oh, and I haven't touched the frontend for it yet)

[spencerrlongg]

I ran into a few issues while I was writing tests, so still working on this but am optimistic it'll be done sometime in the next couple of days.

[spencerrlongg]

I've been pulled off of this briefly to look into a more pressing issue, will be back on this as soon that's wrapped up

[snipe]

@snipe please provide an example of the translated strings being passed to another translated string. Effectively, trans('general.messages, ['type' => trans('general.type'])).