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BrianCafferelli
6 years agoQuickbase Staff
Alternatively, as a workaround have you considered allowing these users to simply archive records instead? You could add a checkbox field called Archived, and either use custom data rules to control which records the users are allowed to archive - or create a report of archived records which admin users could review and determine which ones should be deleted. The only drawback here is that you would need to update the filters for your reports to only show records which have not been archived.
This is similar to your suggestion Mark, just adding some additional guardrails to help ensure the wrong records aren't being deleted.
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Brian Cafferelli
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This is similar to your suggestion Mark, just adding some additional guardrails to help ensure the wrong records aren't being deleted.
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Brian Cafferelli
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DonLarson
6 years agoQrew Elite
Vivek,
Brian's suggestion requires you to make reporting updates but it is a very good way to go.
I hate delete. Bad things happen when records are deleted. Users like to claim that someone else is messing up the data, or that they did their job and claim the right answers were deleted. The resulting gaps in the Record ID's make it impossible to figure out who is right and end the finger pointing.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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Brian's suggestion requires you to make reporting updates but it is a very good way to go.
I hate delete. Bad things happen when records are deleted. Users like to claim that someone else is messing up the data, or that they did their job and claim the right answers were deleted. The resulting gaps in the Record ID's make it impossible to figure out who is right and end the finger pointing.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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