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Delete deactivated groups imported from LDAP

chuck_irvine — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:44:38 GMT

I modified my ldap properties to import fewer groups than previously. Now, the groups that were are no longer imported show up as deactivated groups in the activiti-app "Identity Management" tab. I am able to delete these one at a time but this is tedious since there are a large number of them. How

Re: Delete deactivated groups imported from LDAP

jbarrez — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:56:44 GMT

We currently don't have a hard delete in bulk, sorry. The reason why they are 'soft deleted' (similar to users) is that there could be process definitions or tasks still in the system that are using these groups and users. Hence why a soft delete is the way to go.

Re: Delete deactivated groups imported from LDAP

chuck_irvine — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:54:24 GMT

How about a big hammer approach? Since this is a test environment where we don't have anything that we currently want to save, are there DB tables that we could drop? Or, what if we were to delete our Oracle schemas and re-create them - would that do it? Thanks

Re: Delete deactivated groups imported from LDAP

jbarrez — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:47:43 GMT

Sure, if you'd recreate schema's, then it's pretty easy. If it's a test environment, that's most likely the easiest way - simply let Activiti recreate the necessary schema.