Friday 29 August 2008 10:38:39 am

Hi Ciaran,

I don't believe the admin panel will allow you to delete many objects over 100 in one go. I know i've hit limits previously, where it advised me to use ezsubtreeremove.php.

I used this recently to delete a bunch of unrequired objects:-

php ./bin/php/ezsubtreeremove.php --ignore-trash --nodes-id=1600 --siteaccess=mysiteaccess

I believe the --ignore-trash and --siteaccess switches are optional. To delete multiple subtrees in one go you can separate the node ids by a comma:-

--nodes-id=1600,2667,2980

I hope this helps.

James

Monday 01 September 2008 8:59:29 am

<i>
Does the ezsubtree remove delete the parent object as well? that is, if I use it to remove users, will it also delete the user group they're contained in?
</i>

Good question. I haven't used it to remove user objects, but as your're probably going to use the User Group node id to delete all the user below, i would assume yes it will delete the user group as well.

Like i said i haven't tried it with user objects. Definitely worth testing it on another unimportant dev ez pubish base first, to check the behavior.

Monday 01 September 2008 12:29:51 pm

>Try creating a new user group called "delete me" or something, then swapping it with the group with all the accounts you want to delete.

Just guessing here, but I think Ciaran want to keep it to avoid recreating any role assignments.
If so I would consider creating a copy of the script where you fetch the children node id's of the passed nodes and pass those id's to '$deleteIDArrayResult'.

Rough ( as in not tested) 4.x patch for the script so it doesn't remove the root of the subtree:

Index: bin/php/ezsubtreeremove.php
===================================================================
--- bin/php/ezsubtreeremove.php	(revision 22323)
+++ bin/php/ezsubtreeremove.php	(working copy)
@@ -78,13 +78,16 @@
 $deleteIDArrayResult = array();
 foreach ( $deleteIDArray as $nodeID )
 {
-    $node = eZContentObjectTreeNode::fetch( $nodeID );
-    if ( $node === null )
+    $nodes = eZContentObjectTreeNode::subTreeByNodeID( array('AsObject' => false), $nodeID );
+    if ( $nodes === null )
     {
         $cli->error( "\nSubtree remove Error!\nCannot find subtree with nodeID: '$nodeID'." );
         continue;
     }
-    $deleteIDArrayResult[] = $nodeID;
+    foreach( $nodes as $node )
+    {
+        $deleteIDArrayResult[] = $node['node_id'];
+    }
 }
 // Get subtree removal information
 $info = eZContentObjectTreeNode::subtreeRemovalInformation( $deleteIDArrayResult );

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