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devipras
Cloud Apps
01-10-2024
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On Owner deletion, all dashboards created by him should not be deleted

Hi,


Whenever an user with owner access is deleted, all the dasboard created by him are getting deleted. Also, those dashboards shared with others are also deleted. This looks like a critical issue, since the dashboard will be shared among other users, they won't be able to see any dashboard if the user gets deleted.

Atleast the dashboard shared with other users should be retained.

 

Thank You,
Deviprasad

8 Comments

  • Maybe, when a user is selected for deletion, raise a prompt with a list of their dashboards and the option to either delete or reassign.

  • Not OP, but I like this idea. Having the option to re-assign dashboards to another admin user could be one way of handling this?

  • Milan's avatar
    Milan
    Cloud Apps

    I agree with OP, I would suggest ownership defaults to the Sys. Admin

     
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    Thank you everyone for your thoughts. We will bring this up to the product team and post updates here. Please continue to offer input, it does help us.

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    Hello devipras.

    Thank you for providing your feedback.

    I would like to get an idea what your preferred way to handle this is. Dashboards are linked to the user who created them for many reasons, and there is a message stating that the users' Dashboards will be deleted when the user is. What kind of flow would you like to see implemented?

  • We recently had this happen to us (luckily in a dev environment). In our case the user was deleted through an API call, not the web app. A resolution that only changes the prompts experienced through the webapp would not be sufficient guardrails. I'd prefer making the default behavior to transfer ownership to the sys admin or allowing for dashboards to be ownerless and provide the ability for an admin to change the owner on an ownerless dashboard.

  • HV11709's avatar
    HV11709
    Data Storage

    Yes there has to be an easier way to transfer ownership before deleting user - this is a pain point for us

  • mitch_f's avatar
    mitch_f
    Data Storage

    I know this post is a little older but I'd like to add our support and encouragement for this feature. Upon user deletion, simply assign the dashboard to the admin user by default. We've been having issues where Sisense will purge a seemingly random amount of users that we added from Active Directory and that will often include our dashboard designers. In turn it removes a large quantity of dashboards and hinders the usage of Sisense across our company, which is extremely frustrating.

    Thanks for your support and hard work!