I would love to be able to mass-delete menu links. As it is now, you have to select the "delete" action for each link. This loads another page for confirmation purposes. That is so tedious,
In Drupal-land, https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_editor seems to allow that. For D8, there's also https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_delete:

(there's a request to add this to D9 core: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2772961)
https://www.drupal.org/project/delete_menu_options is another interesting module:

Provides extra options when deleting a menu item. You can choose to delete child menu items and decide if the linking nodes should be deleted as well.
~~PS: While at it, can we also move the confirmation form to a modal?~~ (moved to a separate issue: #769)
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I don't think there is currently a way to set back references in bulk for existing books that already reference an author... I believe you can do this with CER through the UI...
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If choosing the Views approach you can also use https://backdropcms.org/project/eva which allows you to place the list with more flexibility.
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Thanks. It still took a lot of trial and error for all the settings within the settings, but I eventually got it to display based on these instructions.
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