In the activity panel of an entity, it shows when something is deleted:
but now I need to try to find it in the trash just by it’s name, and then recover it to check if its the right one, then redelete if not, and keep doing this until I find the one I’m looking for.
Ideally I can either recover directly from the activity panel, or even better: open the deleted enitity in a side panel before recovering (with a little banner top saying “THIS ENTITY IS DELETED”, or something)
Are you talking about a linked entity that was deleted?
Do you mean that there could be multiple deleted entities with the same name, and you only want to recover the one that was related to the entity you’re looking at?
Can you hover over the 20h ago and see the exact time of deletion. Then it should be easy to find the correct one in the audit log.
Yes!
Exactly!
Didn’t know you could over over that! Definitely helps. Still less than ideal. Honestly just a search bar in the trash might already help make it more intuitive for now. Yes you can filter by entity name, but less techy people won’t know that.
In my case there was a LOT that was deleted from then and now, so I had to scroll down a lot to find it.
Still think viewing an entity before restoring is valuable, and doing that directly in the actitivity panel would be much faster than looking for it in the trash.
Nice idea, but I suspect there are some challenges associated with trying to show something that has previously been soft-deleted.
This is pretty difficult to do. The activity log/trash may contain thousands of records, and we lazy load them. Applying filters allows users to limit their query, ideally meaning that what they are looking for is discoverable without having to scroll too far. A search bar would require all records to be pre-loaded, and that isn’t going to happen.
Yeah maybe, not sure about implementation.
I think just search by name would be enough. As in, make the “Entity Name” filter be a search field at the top. Loading might be a bit slow as it needs to query for every keystroke (for unloaded entities), but searching through trash isn’t such a frequent thing I think it’s okay. Will still be faster then scrolling down to find it, or manually changing filter if you dont remember the exact name.