Feature: Select All/Batch Operations

[wenottingham]

AWX Feature Spec - Select All/Batch Operations

User Persona

AWX admin/org admin

Use cases

In prior releases, complex filtering and sorting was added throughout AWX,
allowing users to easily see the 5/10/100 items they want to operate on. We
should allow them to easily select some or all of these filtered items at
once, and operate on them.

Example:

• As a user editing my inventory, I want to select all subgroups, or hosts in a group, with a single click, and then delete them/run a command on them/etc.
• As a admin/org admin/user assigning permissions to multiple job templates, or adding permissions for multiple teams, I should be able to select all items that match my filter with a single click to then add permissions.
• As an admin managing job templates, I should be able to select with a single click all items matching my filter, and delete them/launch them/etc.
• As an admin cleaning old job history, I should be able to select with a single click all items matching my filter, and delete them.

This should have proper support for pagination, including:

• selecting all items on the page
• selecting all items that match the filter regardless of pagination

API Considerations

Likely need support for batched operations, including returning status on
items that have changed.

UI/UX Considerations

Likely needs support for refreshing a list properly after batched operations
change multiple items.

Docs

QA Suggestions

Notes

Examples:

• Gmail multiple select and operate
• GitHub issues multiple select and operate

Updates/Changelog

2017-09-06: initial/updated version

[daemenseth]

Is there some progression on this issue?

[wenottingham]

Not currently; when it is there will likely be more updates in-ticket.

[spsingh1982]

Any update on this?

[donnelll]

Umm...going to ask this again since this is HUGE for us since we offer it as SAAS internally to our customers; "Any Update on this ?"

[ryanpetrello]

@donnelll if there's progress made on this, you'll see it here. Like any other feature or enhancement in open source software, it's a matter of time/priority, and finding somebody to put in the work.

[bac-w]

Seems to me the issue has been in place since Sep 2017. When might we reasonably expect the fix?

[daemenseth]

Is there any progress on this issues, or have someone a commandline solution for me

[mili988]

is there a solution for this? is it possible to delete old jobs from commandline (docker container)?

[wenottingham]

The new AWX UI allows for this.