I created a view with VBO to manage user accounts, and enabled the delete user accounts action. In account settings "admin/config/people/accounts" under "When cancelling a user account" I have it set to: "Disable the account and keep its content." when an account is canceled. However when deleting user accounts with Bulk Operations it deletes the account and all associated content. I think the proper operation would be for VBO to respect the default account cancellation setting. If this isn't possible it should either not deleting user created content when bulk deleting user accounts, or warn the user that this will occur.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | views_bulk_operations-delete_user_warning.patch | 1.08 KB | thijsvdanker |
Comments
Comment #1
bojanz commentedNo. Delete means delete. It is a generic action available to all entity types.
There's an open issue for adding a cancel action: #1799484: Add an action to allow user accounts to be cancelled.
Comment #3
davidwhthomas commentedI just got bitten by this one, a client used "Delete item" on an editorial user and, despite the admin setting to "keep content" all content by that editor was also deleted, resulting in 100's of nodes deleted.
Luckily we have backups...
Comment #4
thijsvdanker commentedI had the same thing here, site manager left the company.. new guy deleted the site manager's account.. site empty.
The cancel action sounds good, but a little warning up front might save some guys job / some developers night sleep? :)
Comment #5
joelcollinsdc commentedDear Lord, please commit this!!!
Comment #6
notmike commentedWe just had a content creator temp leave our university. He wrote hundreds of content items for a site we had in development.
This morning the site administrator used the delete command to remove the user, and then she sent us a panicked email. Fortunately, we had a recent copy of the database, and we were able to restore the deleted content.
We will probably try a patch from the following page:
Add an action to allow user accounts to be cancelled
https://drupal.org/node/1799484
Comment #7
bojanz commentedRetitling. The patch adds action specific code in the middle of the confirmation page, so I can't commit it as-is, but I like the idea in any case.
Comment #8
bojanz commentedWe now have a cancel action: [#8248027].
We'll make sure admin_views offers it instead of the delete one on the default people view.
So we should be good.
Comment #9
ianthomas_ukCancel action is #1799484: Add an action to allow user accounts to be cancelled