Forum .LRN Q&A: Deleting Users - Feature request

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Posted by Christian Fuchs on
Are there any plans of being able to delete user in dotlrn and openacs completely? (Not just deactiviating) And of course all data concerning this user is deleted.

When students leave school, I think it is against data protection acts in many country, if you keep those data.

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Posted by Ryan Gallimore on
I've usually just used acs_object__delete(user_id) and then deleted any user specific data in package tables.
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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
I would be careful what you delete. If a student leaves the university you might want to delete personal related records like grades, class membership and access to the site (though, with initiatives for live long learning, I would assume that it is better to just keep the user in the system so he can always check what he did).

You would probably NOT want to delete forum postings and files , basically anything that other users could have referred to, as you would put things out of context. Therefore I would not delete this comment but make this owned by the public or someone else.