Feature Idea: Soft Delete Management with Restore and Permanent Delete Options

[mehedijaman]

As our application frequently utilizes the soft delete functionality, it would be highly beneficial to implement a structured management system for handling soft-deleted items. The proposed feature would include:

Recycle Bin Access: Add a “Recycle Bin” button to the index page, allowing users to easily navigate to a dedicated page for managing soft-deleted records.

Recycle Bin Page: Display a list of soft-deleted items with the following options for each record:

• Restore: Restore the item to its active state.
• Permanently Delete: Remove the item permanently from the system.

Bulk Actions: Provide two additional buttons for batch operations:

• Restore All: Restore all items currently in the Recycle Bin.
• Delete All: Permanently delete all items from the Recycle Bin.

This feature would streamline routine CRUD operations, making it faster and easier for users to manage soft-deleted items, especially in high-volume scenarios.

The Recycle Bin Page looks like this -

I am interested to give a PR for this feature.

[daniel-cintra]

Hi @mehedijaman ! Thanks for the feature suggestion!

Although this functionality could bring real value to certain systems or scenarios, in other cases, the preferred behavior is to have the opportunity to audit deletions that may need to be reverted with the developer’s assistance. This approach can even help address user permission issues, system support questions, etc. For this reason, I’m unsure about adding this to the Core, considering the full scope: installer, implementation, testing, related tables, documentation, and so on. Perhaps a tutorial or quick video on how to achieve this functionality for specific Modules/Models could be a good alternative...