fixes to alerts and soft deleting

app/Item.php

@@ -4,16 +4,25 @@ namespace App;
 
 use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 use Symfony\Component\ClassLoader\ClassMapGenerator;
-
+use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
 
 
 class Item extends Model
 {
+    use SoftDeletes;
+
     //
     protected $fillable = [
         'title', 'url', 'colour', 'icon', 'description', 'pinned', 'order'
     ];
 
+    /**
+     * The attributes that should be mutated to dates.
+     *
+     * @var array
+     */
+    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
+
     public static function supportedList()
     {
         return [