A trash can feature for Midgard was discussed originally in the 2006 Komorniki Midgard developer meeting, and the APIs for it made their way into the 1.8.0 release. Yesterday I added trash can browsing and undeletion support into Asgard, the new administrative interface.

To use it, first delete a folder:

Currently we ask for confirmation, but now that undeletion works we’re going to move to undo instead.

Then, to undelete it we enter Asgard:

And there to folders (topics), where we see that there are items in trash:

Clicking the trash can reveals more details:

Clicking undelete will undelete the folder and things under it, giving a set of informative status bubbles:

Going back to the site we can see that the folder and articles under it are there, with even images retrieved from trash:

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