in progress Problem in deleting many users/profiles at once..

Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,605 posts
I need to delete about 2000 long inactive members from my site, but I'm encountering a dilemma.
These are members who have never logged into my new Jamroom site since it went live from Ning 6 months ago...despite four reminders sent out to them over time, so obviously they have lost interest and I want to shed them and their content.

The General problem:
I cannot see any way to delete them that is not a very tedious procedure requiring multiple clicks per member- with 2000 that's going to take many hours of work. (ugh)


The additional SPECIFIC problem:
The only place where I can SEE these never-logged-in-yet members lined up neatly for me to start deleting is by sorting the "Last Login" column in the User Accounts data Browser. No problem so far there, as there's a DELETE button next to each User. BUT- if i click the delete button in the USER browser, I get: "Are you sure you want to delete this User account?-The associated User Profile will NOT be deleted." Junk left behind?- certainly don't want that.

Ok, so it seems I should be deleting the member from my User PROFILES Browser instead. If I go to my Profiles Browser instead, when clicking Delete next to a member I get: "Are you sure you want to delete this Profile?-Any User Accounts associated ONLY with this Profile will also be deleted." So...that seems like a better option...BUT!- in the User PROFILES Browser I do not get the "Last Login" column, so I can't sort all my members in order to delete only those who have never yet logged into my Jamroom site. ARGH!!! This means that if deleting these members from the Profiles Browser, I'd have to: copy name from Userbrowser/paste name intoProfilebrowser/search/clickdelete/ clickconfirm/clickback to profilebrowser/clickback to Userbrowser window/click next name... for every. single. one. of those 2000 members in order to cleanly delete both their user account and their profile account and content...right?

There must be a better way to get this job done without many hours and 8,000 or more clicks? Otherwise my sanity will be at stake...
Suggestions?

I do have the BatchItemEditor module, but last time i touched it I screwed up bigtime and completely deleted a whole Group from my site. lol


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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

updated by @strumelia: 04/22/16 12:09:42PM
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,335 posts
Jamroom doesn't have tools for 'mass deletion' of anything. Its not something that users often want to do and as in your case above where there is specific criteria for the deletion, a general purpose tool would be difficult.
So we are looking at something custom - a 'temporary' module with a tool to do your specific deletions. Fairly straightforward!! Open a ticket for this with exactly what you want to happen and I'll see what can be done.
Thanks


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist