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Introduction

Filament includes an action that is able to force-delete soft-deleted Eloquent records. When the trigger button is clicked, a modal asks the user for confirmation. You may use it like so: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
Or if you want to add it as a table bulk action, so that the user can choose which rows to force-delete, use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteBulkAction: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteBulkAction;
use Filament\Tables\Table;

public function table(Table $table): Table
{
    return $table
        ->toolbarActions([
            ForceDeleteBulkAction::make(),
        ]);
}

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Redirecting after force-deleting

You may set up a custom redirect when the form is submitted using the successRedirectUrl() method: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
    ->successRedirectUrl(route('posts.list'))

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Customizing the force-delete notification

When the record is successfully force-deleted, a notification is dispatched to the user, which indicates the success of their action. To customize the title of this notification, use the successNotificationTitle() method: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
    ->successNotificationTitle('User force-deleted')
You may customize the entire notification using the successNotification() method: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;
use Filament\Notifications\Notification;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
    ->successNotification(
       Notification::make()
            ->success()
            ->title('User force-deleted')
            ->body('The user has been force-deleted successfully.'),
    )
To disable the notification altogether, use the successNotification(null) method: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
    ->successNotification(null)

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Lifecycle hooks

You can use the before() and after() methods to execute code before and after a record is force-deleted: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteAction;

ForceDeleteAction::make()
    ->before(function () {
        // ...
    })
    ->after(function () {
        // ...
    })

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Improving the performance of force-delete bulk actions

By default, the ForceDeleteBulkAction will load all Eloquent records into memory, before looping over them and deleting them one by one. If you are deleting a large number of records, you may want to use the chunkSelectedRecords() method to fetch a smaller number of records at a time. This will reduce the memory usage of your application: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteBulkAction;

ForceDeleteBulkAction::make()
    ->chunkSelectedRecords(250)
Filament loads Eloquent records into memory before deleting them for two reasons:
  • To allow individual records in the collection to be authorized with a model policy before deletion (using authorizeIndividualRecords('forceDelete'), for example).
  • To ensure that model events are run when deleting records, such as the forceDeleting and forceDeleted events in a model observer.
If you do not require individual record policy authorization and model events, you can use the fetchSelectedRecords(false) method, which will not fetch the records into memory before deleting them, and instead will delete them in a single query: 
use Filament\Actions\ForceDeleteBulkAction;

ForceDeleteBulkAction::make()
    ->fetchSelectedRecords(false)