I recently posted to the Dashboard the necessary [and federally required] information relating to voting in our November 2, 2010 elections. It was to have remained there until at least mid-October. However, I recently learned that a person in a totally different department on campus deleted my message [as well as another created by our Academic Assistant]. It would be nice if only the creator or his/her direct supervisor could delete messages from the Dashboard. Any way that can happen?
Date
Votes
3 comments
-
Shane Flynn We had the same issue happen. A staff member didn't realize that the delete button that shows up on her news page deletes the news post completely!
-
Chris Chiacchierini We had the same the problem. A staff member just deleted most of our news, thinking that they were removing the news from only their own view.
-
Adam Sentz I don't think it would be a good idea to only allow deletion of News by the person that created it. If a staff member quit, was fired, or was even just on vacation you'd have to get support to handle this very basic task.
I'm a little fuzzy on how someone could think that deleting news would just hide it from their view. When you delete anything in Populi it's deleted for everyone. It's not like there's an ambiguous little "X" right there on the article that you could mistake for "Hide". You have to click "Manage News", then click a trash can icon in a column called "Delete", then you have co click OK in a confirm dialog that says, "Are you sure you want to delete this news article? There is no undo."
If I thought this could be more clear I'd make it more clear. It doesn't make sense to me to say "Are you sure you want to delete X? It will be deleted for everyone, not just you! There is no undo" in every delete confirm in Populi (there are a ton).
Please sign in to leave a comment.