Easier Deletion of Ads

[Greg H]

Im looking for a ways to make it easier to delete ads.

Ive been using Maffos Bulk Upload System, which works great, but sometimes a lot of Ads need to be deleted for various reasons.

In Admin, the search listings function is good, but is tedious for large amounts of ads.

A couple of things I thought of could be..

1 - A "Select All" type of function, that would allow me to select "Delete" ( which would delete all the ads on the page.

2 - Another thing that would make things easier is to have the Admin display more than 15 ads per page.

Just thinking out loud...Any suggestions ?

Cheers
Greg

[Maffo]

Is there a problem with the Upload system? Hope not

You could write a little custom script that deletes multiple adds at once, there are many ways to do this. None straight out the box however.

[Greg H]

No problems with the Upload System. Ive used it to upload many ads.

The problem is when my client says ...


"I made a mistake in the data entries".
"I put them some of them in wrong category, and I want to put some others into a different category.etc etc"

Another reason, is that for some of my bulk uploads, I have set a expiry of 3 years, to avoid re-doing them later(I have my reasons why) , but at some point Im gonna have to delete ads in bulk and redo bulk uploads with new data. Were talking thousands of listing here.

The reason I posted this today was because I just spent 1.5 hours deleting ads manually from admin and thought , theres gotta be a better way.

I suppose it would be nice for some ways to be incorporated into the bulk upload system, something like, at the end of each Bulk Upload, have it create a csv with the data needed to "Undo" it all at a later date. All it would need is the listing ID ?


Cheers
Greg

[Maffo]

It doesnt really needed to be incorporated into the bulk listing module. If you can get a list of all the ids, then you create a loop that runs through 68's deletion process. All you would need to do is run a query in your phpmyadmin, such as (example only!!!) "SELECT ID FROM the products table where the id meets a certain criteria ".

Once you have the IDs, run them through the deletion process. Everyones happy & bobs your uncle.

Another alternative is to introduce your client to the bulk uploads system, let him do uploads. He will be a bit more careful when choosing categories!!