Feature #34417

Require explicit confirmation when deleting a user or a project

Added by Jens Krämer about 1 year ago. Updated 10 months ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:Go MAEDA% Done:

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Category:UI
Target version:4.2.0
Resolution:Fixed

Description

It happens quite often at Planio that we have to support users who accidentally deleted something. Often, a Javascript alert box is simply dismissed by the user without actually grasping it's message, leading to unintended consequences. Especially in the case of deleted user accounts, a lot of information is lost and hard to restore from a backup.

The first patch in this issue introduces an explicit confirmation page (similar to when deleting a project) which requires to enter the login of the user to be deleted in order to confirm the deletion. It also suggests locking the user as a safer option instead and offers a button to do so.

The second patch changes the project deletion page to require the user to enter the identifier of the project to be deleted, instead of just ticking a checkbox, just to make it a bit harder to delete the wrong project by accident.

0002-require-to-enter-project-s-identifier-to-confirm-pro.patch Magnifier (4.76 KB) Jens Krämer, 2020-12-09 04:12

0001-require-explicit-confirmation-before-deleting-a-user.patch Magnifier (7.65 KB) Jens Krämer, 2020-12-09 04:12

Screenshot from 2020-12-09 11-15-25.png - project deletion (30.6 KB) Jens Krämer, 2020-12-09 04:16

Screenshot from 2020-12-09 11-15-50.png - user deletion (64.9 KB) Jens Krämer, 2020-12-09 04:16

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #33071: Prevent accidental deletion of contents with sudo mode Reopened
Related to Redmine - Patch #35373: Improve project deletion warning text New

Associated revisions

Revision 20600
Added by Go MAEDA about 1 year ago

Require explicit confirmation before deleting a user (#34417).

Patch by Jens Krämer.

Revision 20601
Added by Go MAEDA about 1 year ago

Require to enter project's identifier to confirm project deletion (#34417).

Patch by Jens Krämer.

Revision 20602
Added by Go MAEDA about 1 year ago

Update locales (#34417).

History

#2 Updated by Marius BALTEANU about 1 year ago

  • Subject changed from require explicit confirmation when deleting a user to Require explicit confirmation when deleting a user or a project
  • Target version set to Candidate for next major release

Very nice addition and it works well from my tests.

I've added the patches to CI, if all the tests pass, I think we can deliver this in 4.2.0 and use this implementation to improve other object deletion (like #33071).

#3 Updated by Marius BALTEANU about 1 year ago

  • Related to Feature #33071: Prevent accidental deletion of contents with sudo mode added

#4 Updated by Marius BALTEANU about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.2.0

Tests pass https://gitlab.com/redmine-org/redmine/-/pipelines/227153244 (except system tests, but there are other issues there).

#5 Updated by Go MAEDA about 1 year ago

It is a great improvement. I think there is no reason not to deliver this new feature in Redmine 4.2.0.

#6 Updated by Go MAEDA about 1 year ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee set to Go MAEDA

Committed the patches. Thank you for your contribution.

#7 Updated by Go MAEDA 10 months ago

  • Tracker changed from Patch to Feature
  • Resolution set to Fixed

#8 Updated by Go MAEDA 7 months ago

  • Related to Patch #35373: Improve project deletion warning text added

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