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<div class="">It appears to be a misfeature that deleting a user also deletes the agent record for that user, which is what the backend model for user does. </div>
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<div class="">I believe removing those last three lines would fix the problem: </div>
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<div class="">i.e. remove the User object but leave the Agent object. Links are from User to Agent, so I don’t think there would be any unexpected side effects. As a test, I removed a User record only on a test site in MySQL, and display still shows their id
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<div class="">I will test this further if there is a consensus that this is the desired behavior. </div>
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<div class="">On Mar 8, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Caldera, Mary <<a href="mailto:mary.caldera@yale.edu" class="">mary.caldera@yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Our Yale ArchivesSpace User management Policy, prohibits the deletion of user records for the very reasons noted. The relevant section is as follows. –<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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creation, deactivation, and the changing of user accounts and privileges must be carried out only by trained and authorized staff (i.e. the Yale ArchivesSpace Committee).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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to ArchivesSpace will be limited to the Yale NetIDs of people who are members of the ArchivesSpace Active Group. This single Active Group will have access to all three instances of ArchivesSpace at Yale: dev, production, and test. Even though access will be
allowed to the same three instances, that does not mean that each will have the same set of privileges. For example, only developers will have privileges in the dev instance.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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person enacting any change to a user account must be different from the person requesting the change.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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should never be deleted from the ArchivesSpace database; instead, when a user no longer requires access to the ArchivesSpace database, their account will be deactivated.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" class=""><span class="">o<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The
ArchivesSpace username will be preceded with a “zzz_” in the ArchivesSpace database.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Yale NetID will be removed from the ArchivesSpace Active Directory group.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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repository roles associated with that account will be removed.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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accounts will be periodically reviewed to determine if any need to be deactivated.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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may be re-activated -- but only after a request has been issued and approved by following the same procedures required for requesting a new account -- by removing the “zzz_” from an existing username and then following the same procedure for the addition of
any new ArchivesSpace account.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Sincerely,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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[<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" class="">mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>]<b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Olivia S Solis<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Former users and data loss<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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The Briscoe Center is in the process of adopting ArchivesSpace and has been testing it out in a sandbox. We took note of a potential problem in the future regarding hypothetical former employees who may have been ASpace users at one point. Presumably, we would
delete them after they moved on to other work. I wanted to see what a user's trail might look like after he/she were deleted from the system, so I created an appraisal event with a user (my dog Chicken) as the authorizer.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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The results are mixed. While in some fields it looks like the data is retained, in some fields it is not. For instance:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Before you delete an agent record, ArchivesSpace does warn you that you will lose all references to it in the database, including references to it in other records. How have some of you anticipated handling this situation? Leave former employees in the system
and change their passwords? Is there a workaround for some of the loss of data or am I missing an obvious solution to this?<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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