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Ability to delete content block in bulk



Posted Apr 21, 2024

We need the ability to delete a content block that will automatically remove it from all guides that it exists in. It is a laborious task to have to delete from each guide manually and then delete the content block.


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Shawna James

Community Product Feedback Specialist

Hello Lisa,
 
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. Can I point you in the direction of our product feedback template? This template has been designed by community members and PM's to help users provide the most accurate details for their feature request so that we can better understand your use case and needs. If you could, we would appreciate you taking the time to update your post and utilize the template.
 
For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!
 

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Katarzyna Karpinska

Zendesk Product Manager

Hi Lisa Hayday , thank you for your feedback. The reason it is not possible at the moment is that deleting a content block and removing it from all published articles at the same time might be potentially dangerous for these articles content (it will remove pieces of text and might leave the articles in a nonsensical state). As the deletion is permanent we believe that additional manual verification is necessary in this case. 

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Hi Katarzyna Karpinska. I do understand what you are saying but to negate this it should be a choice. If you have over 900 guides like we do, manual verification is tedious when we know what we want to do and understand the impact our change will make.

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Manually going into the content block, determining everywhere that it exists, removing it from those articles, and then deleting the content block from its editor seems to contravene the concept of single-sourcing. Being able to delete a content block at the source and having it automatically prune from all related articles is functionality that MadCap Flare has had for years. We really need this functionality in Zendesk as well.

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Plus 1'ing this feature 

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