How to delete employees and users?

**shamel** · 2006-01-18, 07:18 PM

I can't figure for the life of me how to delete an employee that was created by accident. It doesnt refer to anything. Its not a user. Was never used anywhere.

**kbrill** · 2006-01-18, 08:33 PM

There isn;t any, if it's not fixed in 4.0.1, I will write a quick module patch to do it.

**janislanka** · 2006-01-19, 07:32 AM

is there any explenation why there is no such thing? Seems to be one of the very abvious things to have.

**Superman** · 2006-01-19, 09:40 AM

You'd better to ask such questions to Sugar developers/managers

**janislanka** · 2006-01-19, 09:49 AM

do developers ever visit this section to see what problems are out there?

**kbrill** · 2006-01-19, 02:02 PM

There are about 600 threads out there about "Why can't I delete users/employees". I am not sure why you can't still, but I am sure that one way or another you will be after 4.0.1.

**joey** · 2006-01-20, 07:41 AM

One reason why it might be bad to programatically delete a user is because the user may have associated records assigned to him or her. It's much more safe--in terms of deleting users--to set his or her status to 'Inactive' on the Edit pane for the particular user. He or she will no longer show up in the drop down for assigned users so you could be effectively getting what you want by just using the Inactive status.

Does this help you out?

Thanks,
Joey P.
SugarCRM

**kbrill** · 2006-01-20, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by joey

One reason why it might be bad to programatically delete a user is because the user may have associated records assigned to him or her. It's much more safe--in terms of deleting users--to set his or her status to 'Inactive' on the Edit pane for the particular user. He or she will no longer show up in the drop down for assigned users so you could be effectively getting what you want by just using the Inactive status.

Does this help you out?

Thanks,
Joey P.
SugarCRM

This is true, and already mulled over a hundred times. There is a deleted field in the table. If I made a user/employee by mistake or want them gone for some other reason I can't see a problem with setting deleted=1. Inactive isn't gone enough sometimes.

**kimvette** · 2006-01-20, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by joey

One reason why it might be bad to programatically delete a user is because the user may have associated records assigned to him or her.

The intelligent thing to do in that case is to allow deleting of users/employees upon which no other data is associated, but merely "tombstone" the ones on which other records do depend.