Recover deleted PI Vision displays from a Recycle Bin

1. What specific problem are you trying to solve with this enhancement? > Users accidentally deleting a display

2. How would you like this feature to work? > Implement a Recycle Bin feature to temporarily store mistakenly deleted items for a specified number of days. The retention period can be set by IT to balance disk space usage and confidentiality concerns.

3. Who will benefit the most from this enhancement? > Users accidentally deleted a display and admins who have to do recoveries

Our team is responsible for supporting PI Vision within our company. Here are a couple of suggestions that could greatly benefit us all:

1. Recycle Bin:

   • Implement a Recycle Bin feature to temporarily store mistakenly deleted items for a specified number of days. The retention period can be set by IT to balance disk space usage and confidentiality concerns.

2. Versioning:

   • Introduce versioning for Displays, similar to what Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive offer. As with the Recycle Bin, IT can define the retention period for versions to manage storage and privacy effectively.

Thank you for considering our feedback!

1. Users accidentally deleting a display

2. A "Recycle Bin" or "Recently Deleted Displays" folder where users could recover displays they deleted and admins could recover any display.

3. Admins who have to do SQL Server database recoveries

Please make it possible to recover displays! I accidentally deleted one I just finished when cleaning up old displays!

This shouldn't even be hard to implement. The deletion of a display is done by a StoredProc, "CleanDeletedBrowseElements". Just modifiy the StoredProc to not 'Delete from table' , but instead to Change the ParentID of the 'DeleteFlag' marked displays to set the ParentID value to that of a folder called 'Deleted Displays'.
Or, even better, just leave all displays EXACTLY as they are when deleted, and simply just leave them Marked as deleted, and have a new function in PIVision to Show Deleted displays, so that people can undelete them.

Enhancement User stories:
As a PIVision user, I want the Delete Display display button MOVED away from the Save and Cancel buttons so that I can not accidentally delete the PIVision display.
As a PIVision user, I want be able to recover a deleted display so that I can use it again and not have to redesign it from scratch.
As a PIVision user, I want to be able to have deleted displays hidden by default from my All Displays view so that they do not clutter up my Pivision homepage.
As a PIVision user, I want to be able to 'do something' to see all Deleted Displays so that I can chose to undelete one or more of them

Very good idea ! Will make the restoration much easier and really feasible.

with the new version of pivision allowing for export of pivision displays to .PDIX files, it should be relatively small code change to create a dumpster folder and push deleted displays as pdix to there, but if the old versions of displays could be stored in a version table for recovery that would be best. it can be a major pain recovering displays that have been deleted. if a folder is deleted, that would be really bad. Restoring displays by using the display mover to move from a separate pivision recovery server means thet restored displays get new display IDs, and all the displays that referenced the old display number have to be found and manually edited. a recover from recycle bin option would help a lot. Also, please disable the delete button if a display is set to read only!

Just had to bend over backwards because someone accidentally deleted a critical display (Delete Display is right next to the Save button). Would be great to have a recycling bin.