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

mark burdett mark at goodstorm.com
Wed Jul 19 17:45:49 UTC 2006


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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