deleting multiple items

I would like to delete multiple items from the archive. Currently I am only able to delete one item at a time. Is there an easier way to delete many items?

Thank you,
Tonu

Tonu,
There is not a way to delete multiple items at once from the admin interface. But, you can delete multiple items using PhPMyAdmin if you use it to manage your database.

Sheila

Thank you Sheila, Would you consider adding the functionality to delete multiple items at one time in your next release?

Thanks,
Tonu

Tonu,
Generally we have not seen or heard of a great demand for deleting multiple items at one time, but I'll toss that out to the dev team.
Thanks,
Sheila

I have to say that it looks like if i don't find a multiple delete system for the submissions, I likely won't be able to support submissions on our omeka. Sure, I'll be installing anti-spam on the april16archive, but for now I've had to turn off submissions because of spam is filling the db faster than i can 3 click delete. so now i have a backlog of i'm guessing 500-1000 spam items which will take 3 clicks each to delete.... in the current system, unless you can give me a nice sql statement.

Hi buridan,
There isn't a multiple item delete function in the admin side of .10, so the best way to manage that is through PhPMyAdmin. That is how I handle the mass amounts of spam on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.

Sheila

Which tables would be affected by a bulk delete through PHPMyAdmin? I used the CSV Import plugin on the latest release of Omeka last night, to import 1200+ fully normalized CSV records...and the plugin imported all 1200 records as totally blank items. And the plugin's "undo" feature isn't working. Awesome.

So, I now have 1200+ blank Item records I need to delete from my database.

Colleen,

What versions of Omeka & CSV plugins are you using? If you've upgraded to 1.3, there is a CSV for 1.3.

The undo import should work, but it's possible that there is a bug but we'll need to know what versions you are working with.

Is this the only data that you've imported using the importer? If so, try deactivating and uninstalling the plugin.

I should clarify something from the last post that was incorrect: uninstalling the plugin won't remove the items, it will remove the list of imports that you've already run. So, don't uninstall. When we figure out the problem with your installation and plugin versions, then you should be able to undo the imports.

Sorry for the confusion.