Service recorder.purge_entities don't update title in UI automation

[WorldOfGZ]

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• I have tried reproducing the issue in safe mode to rule out problems with unsupported custom resources.

Describe the issue you are experiencing

Hello

I think is issue is related to PR home-assistant/core#110066 which seems removed Target

I saw it on an automation I used to purge daily a very noisy sensor.
My automation at beginning was like that :

service: recorder.purge_entities
data:
  keep_days: 1
target:
  entity_id:
    - sensor.creality_cr10_v2_electric_consumption_w
    - sensor.creality_cr10_v2_last_seen
enabled: true

As you can see, title is ok, but target doens't appear because target was removed.

So, I tried to modify the automation to respect the breaking change with this one :

service: recorder.purge_entities
metadata: {}
data:
  keep_days: 0
  entity_id:
    - sensor.creality_cr10_v2_last_seen
    - sensor.creality_cr10_v2_electric_consumption_w

---

By the way I just would also add something about this modification. Labels was just introduced some weeks ago, and could be selected in "Target" which is now removed of this service.
I was with the idea of simplifying my automations with use this labels as target on recorder.purge_entities and mark some noisy entities as for example "Purge 1 day", "Purge 7 days", ... But now it will no longer possible

Describe the behavior you expected

Normally, the title is personalized to the target/entity used

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Create an automation with UI
2. Add action recorder.purge_entities
3. Add at least an entity

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.5.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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In which browser are you experiencing the issue with?

Google Chrome 124.0.6367.119

Which operating system are you using to run this browser?

Windows 10

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Problem-relevant frontend configuration

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[karwosts]

By the way I just would also add something about this modification. Labels was just introduced some weeks ago, and could be selected in "Target" which is now removed of this service.
I was with the idea of simplifying my automations with use this labels as target on recorder.purge_entities and mark some noisy entities as for example "Purge 1 day", "Purge 7 days", ... But now it will no longer possible

Just want to point out that this was never possible. Prior to the removal of target selector, if you had selected a label and clicked purge, it would have erased your entire database. That was the reason it was removed.

[WorldOfGZ]

Sorry, I probably expressed myself wrong, English is not my native language.
Before release 2024.5.0 I used Target to select entities, and purge only entities necessary.
When the labels was released I saw we can call it in target and a saw an opportunity to label directly an entity with "Purge 1 day", "Purge 7 days", ... and don't come back to automation to add entities. But I hadn't done it yet..

Today I was in the way to try it and it's appear something change, then I found the PR to understand.
So I rewrite my automation, and see the problem with title, this is the reason of this issue.

I fully understand reasons of the PR, and fully agree with the problem resolution. But I think (probably for myself) that labels would have been a very good use case, if it could work.

[karwosts]

Yes perhaps someday someone can extend the service to fully support target selector.

The title issue is possibly a duplicate of #20496