Content Cleaner

An Optimizely CMS 12 plugin to let you find content of a specific type and delete all or selected instances.

Description

Occasionally, there arises the necessity to eliminate content corresponding to specific types. This need may arise, for instance, during content cleanup procedures before transitioning to a new environment for User Acceptance Testing (UAT), or when there is a desire to discard certain content types altogether.

Typically, content of particular types is scattered throughout the system, particularly with multimedia assets and blocks, rendering the process quite laborious. Consequently, I devised a compact administrative mode plugin that facilitates the selection of a type and provides a comprehensive list of all content instances associated with that type. It further enables the deletion of either all instances or selectively chosen ones of that particular type.

Getting Started

Installing

• Ensure you have a source configured for the Optimizely nuget feed
• Locate the package 'Content Cleaner' from the optimizely feed and install.
• Configure 'Content Cleaner' in the Startup.cs in the ConfigureServices method, below is an example :

   public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
 {
     if (_webHostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment())
     {
         AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", Path.Combine(_webHostingEnvironment.ContentRootPath, "App_Data"));

         services.Configure<SchedulerOptions>(options => options.Enabled = false);
     }

     services
         .AddCmsAspNetIdentity<ApplicationUser>()
         .AddCms()
         .AddAlloy()
         .AddAdminUserRegistration()
         .AddEmbeddedLocalization<Startup>();

     // Required by Wangkanai.Detection
     services.AddDetection();

     services.AddSession(options =>
     {
         options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
         options.Cookie.HttpOnly = true;
         options.Cookie.IsEssential = true;
     });

     services.AddContentCleaner();
 }

• Configure the application to ensure that controllers are mapped and routed also by updating your application configuration, below is an example:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
    }

    // Required by Wangkanai.Detection
    app.UseDetection();
    app.UseSession();

    app.UseStaticFiles();
    app.UseRouting();
    app.UseAuthentication();
    app.UseAuthorization();
    app.AddContentCleaner();

    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
    {
        endpoints.MapContent();
    });
}

Executing program

• Start the application and login in tothe CMS.
• Locate 'Content Cleaner' under 'Add-ons' from the navigation panel
• Select a 'Content Type' from the dropdown.
• A list of content will appear that is using the content type.
• Click the delete button and the content will be deleted.