softDelete User Confirmation

llandale - Thu Dec 10 18:40:08 EST 2009
Don't know about the import script, but I never get prompted when I softDelete and object, even with children with links. Perhaps send the section of code in question.

• Louie

Matthew Dunn - Fri Dec 11 13:30:34 EST 2009

int lDeletedObj = 0
    Object lObject = null
    for lObject in mDeleteList do
    {
                if ( lObject != null )
                {             
                        if ( table( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteTable( lObject )
                        }
                        else if ( row( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteRow( lObject )
                        }
                        else if ( !cell( lObject ) )
                        {     
                                softDelete( lObject, true )
                        }
                        
                        lDeletedObj++
                }
        }

I'm not really doing anything special with it. mDeleteList is a Skip list with all the objects that should be deleted. The confirmation dialog says the following: "This may delete hidden objects are you sure?"

Matthew Dunn - Fri Dec 11 13:44:29 EST 2009

Of course, as soon as I post a reply, I figure out what I needed. The second parameter is what was causing the confirmation dialog I think. However, I couldn't get my method to work without it, until I realized I was trying to delete items that were already deleted (I had deleted the ancestors already). Here is my solution if anyone is interested:
 

int lDeletedObj = 0
    Object lObject = null
    for lObject in mDeleteList do
    {
                // We check if the object has been deleted, because it's possible that the object may have
                // already been deleted in a previous loop
                if ( ( lObject != null ) && !isDeleted( lObject ) )
                {     
                        if ( table( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteTable( lObject )
                        }
                        else if ( row( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteRow( lObject )
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                softDelete( lObject )
                        }
                }
                
                lDeletedObj++
        }

Matthew Dunn - Fri Dec 11 13:30:34 EST 2009

int lDeletedObj = 0
    Object lObject = null
    for lObject in mDeleteList do
    {
                if ( lObject != null )
                {             
                        if ( table( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteTable( lObject )
                        }
                        else if ( row( lObject ) )
                        {
                                deleteRow( lObject )
                        }
                        else if ( !cell( lObject ) )
                        {     
                                softDelete( lObject, true )
                        }
                        
                        lDeletedObj++
                }
        }

I'm not really doing anything special with it. mDeleteList is a Skip list with all the objects that should be deleted. The confirmation dialog says the following: "This may delete hidden objects are you sure?"

Mathias Mamsch - Fri Dec 11 18:03:20 EST 2009
Are you sure about your loop?

I don't know if you delete single cells (not just entire rows), but the code should fail, when you delete a single cell, since nothing happens in this case, except the deletion counter is increased.

So you might want to remove the "if (!cell lObject)" ...

Regards, Mathias