Recreating the 'Delete' button

[Todge]

I am trying to create a button to delete a post, but I cannot fathom out how...

I can move the 'controls' cell and it works fine, but I then get an error pop up when switching pages, if I try to clone the 'controls' cell the post-options are missing, and if I try to create a new button exactly the same as the existing one, it does nothing.

So, is there a function I can call on to attach to my own button that will delete the post?

Thank you to anyone who can help.

[Chris]

Hi Todge,
you can attach a click event to your button/link/whatever like so (ripped directly from PB source)...


$('#mybutton').on('click',[327], function deletePost(event){

var listMan = proboards.listManagers[pb.data("lm_id")];
var postMan = proboards.postManager;
var post_ids_array = event.data

proboards.confirm_dialog('posts', 'delete', post_ids_array, function(data) {
// If a redirect_url is set, then that means the thread was deleted
if(typeof data['redirect_url'] != 'undefined') {
// Redirect to that url
window.location = data['redirect_url'];
}
// Else refresh the list
else {
postMan.unselect_all();

// clear search cache and trigger re-search
listMan.research();

// Update selection
listMan.selected_ids = [];
listMan.selected_items = {};
}
})
});

I'm assuming you know at event attach time the ID or IDs of the posts that is to be deleted (e.g. [327] in the given code example) but if not you could probably reference a variable at runtime to gather that info. If you have not completely hidden the standard post list UI (which I am assuming you have done thus the need for a button) then you could access listManager's get_selections() method for the posts selected by the user instead. 

Since this can potentially generate THREE ajax calls (one to get the dialog contents, one to do the actual delete and one to refresh the post list) it might be wise to ask someone on PB admin team for a blessing or curse although it seems clear cut to me: user initiated button click with no ambiguous motive as to what the click will do.

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[Todge]

Thank you Chris, I knew there must be a way, but could I find it???

Yup, I already have the post ID, thank you... Refreshing the post list is a waste of time, as the posts themselves have already been removed while restructuring the page, so I'd just remove the cell pertaining to that post.

Brian, Brian, VS Admin (or one of the other red peeps), would it be OK for me to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Brian]

Tim says you're good to go using that particular click binding.

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Sept 2, 2015 7:30:18 GMT -8 Todge said:

Thank you Chris, I knew there must be a way, but could I find it???

Yup, I already have the post ID, thank you... Refreshing the post list is a waste of time, as the posts themselves have already been removed while restructuring the page, so I'd just remove the cell pertaining to that post.

Brian, Brian, VS Admin (or one of the other red peeps), would it be OK for me to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Tag you're it.

[Todge]

Sept 2, 2015 8:40:55 GMT -8 Brian said:

Tim says you're good to go using that particular click binding.

Seems I tagged you twice, sorry about that, Tim was meant to be there as well, and thank you. I'll get straight on it.