Feature ask :: Recover deleted page/chapter/book

[patoroco]

Hi,

should be possible to save a history / revisions of deleted pages/chapters/books? It's dangerous to allow to full-delete by error and don't allow to recover the pages.

Maybe this feature exists, but I haven't find it :)

[thestepafter]

Yes, please add this feature to help with avoiding the loss of data if you delete something you shouldn't have.

[monitaurus]

I would just add that history (or revisions) is a really great feature, even more if you are using an app for collaborative work.

[patoroco]

My suggest is to save revision, and delete page from database.

Maybe should be possible to have a "trash", where you can un-delete pages in last 30 days? In other case, remove totally (with all attachments).

What do you think?

[pdfrod]

A book has just disappeared and I have no idea who deleted, when or why. So yeah, something should be done in this department. At least an audit trail.

[ssddanbrown]

@pdfrod Just an FYI, If you'd like to find out what happened, Delete actions are commonly recorded but just not reflected in the UI. You can find them in the database on the activities table:

SELECT * FROM activities
     WHERE `key` LIKE '%_delete'
     ORDER BY created_at DESC

The extra column contains the name of the item deleted, The user_id is the users table id of the user that triggered that action.

[pdfrod]

That's helpful, thanks a lot @ssddanbrown!

[patoroco]

Thanks @ssddanbrown !

[ssddanbrown]

I've added a recycle bin implementation in #2283, which will be part of the next release (v0.31). Additionally, as of v0.30 it's possible to see delete events in the audit log (https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/beta-release-v0-30-0/).

Since the code for this has been merged, ready for a release, I'm going to close this off.

[patoroco]

Thanks for taking this one @ssddanbrown !