[development] Have you ever laughed fate in the face?

[mark burdett]

We need to prevent users from deleting their nodes. They can
discontinue (unpublish), but not delete them.  (We want the node data
to still be in the database, not just in a restorable trashbin).
Would be good to allow for this kind of configuration.

--mark

On 7/19/06, Neil Drumm <drumm at delocalizedham.com> wrote:
> Darrel O'Pry wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 01:39 -0700, Neil Drumm wrote:
> >> Bèr Kessels wrote:
> >>> Op dinsdag 18 juli 2006 05:45, schreef Neil Drumm:
> >>>> What group of users who might want this?
> >>> I want this. What is wrong with choice? Offering choice, with good defaults is
> >>> good. Offering only the good defaults without any choice to break out of them
> >>> is bad.
> >> What specific situations have you been in (or anticipate to be in) where
> >> you will  need to modify the delete work flow?
> >
> > quickies I think of....
> >
> > -administrative oversight of deletion
> > -allow archival of deleted items to another server while deleting them
> > from customer facing servers.
> > -protect end-users and administrators from accidental deletion.
>
> None of these call for removal of any trashbin we might add.
>
> --
> Neil Drumm
> http://delocalizedham.com/
>


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