And, if the user IS concerned with drive space, you can date stamp the
delete, thus run a batch clean up once a month to remove entries that are a
year or older : )
At 03:16 PM 12/17/00 -0500, Todd Ashworth you wrote:
>Sounds like a good idea to me as well. On our two largest projects, we don't
>let users permanently delete anything .. ever. We just flag the data that
>they 'delete' to not show up any more. Inevitably, someone always deletes
>something that they want back. Well, we can certainly get their data back
>for them, for a $75 charge for the support call ;) This makes it well worth
>the trouble of the little bit of extra coding needed during development.
>Besides, hard drive space is cheap.
>
>Todd Ashworth
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Shadovitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 6:52 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: OT: Undo Delete
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of changing my typical "Delete" button so that it doesn't
> > > actually delete a record, but rather flags it as a record to be ignored.
> > > I'd also record the date/time that it was flagged. That way I can offer
> > > the user the opportunity to Undo the Delete. I'll probably schedule a
> > > job to delete all records which have been flagged for more than 1 day.
> > >
> > > Hey, I've been influenced by Jef Raskin's "The Humane Interface" and
>Alan
> > > Cooper's "The Inmates are Running the Asylum."
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Here's another use for flagging records: Our db tables which contain
> > > scientific data contain an "approved" field, whose default value is
> > > "false". After data is inserted into the database, an analyst checks it
> > > out, and then we toggle the flag to "true". Of course, our non-admin
> > > canned queries all include "WHERE approved = true".
> > >
> > > -David
> > >
> >
>
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