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Deleting
Links, Chat Rooms, Folders or Discussions, Messages, and Users
Deleting
Links or Chat Rooms
Deleting Folders or Discussions
Deleting Messages
Deleting Users
Resources
Deleting
Links or Chat Rooms
To delete
a link or a chat room, click Edit next to the title in
the containing folder, and you'll find a Delete button
at the bottom of the page.
Deleting
Folders or Discussions
To delete
a discussion or folder, click the Delete button, which
may be in the toolbar or near the Mark button, depending
on your configuration.
Hosts
and sysop can always delete discussions or folders. Users can
delete a discussion they start as long as nobody else has posted
a message.
Whether
guests and registered users can delete discussions, folders, or
links depends on the privileges you have set for them in the Control
Panel > User Management > Guest users and Registered
users.
Deleted
messages are moved to the deleted file in the webx directory
on your server. You can recover
deleted folders or discussions from the deleted file
by reimporting them.
You
can delete several folders or discussions at once by using the
Export button inside the containing folder. Export
> Export, move, delete or purge selected items.
Folders
or discussions which are Purged via the
Export command are not recoverable except from a backup database.
Deleting
Messages
To delete
a message, click the Delete button next to it.
Users
can always delete their own messages. Hosts and sysop can delete
anyone's messages.
When
you delete a message, it isn't moved to the deleted file,
but stays in the discussion, marked with a "deleted"
tag. It's possible to recover these deleted items by simply exporting
the file, editing out the deleted tags and reimporting.
See Recovering Deleted Messages
for details.
You
can choose whether you want Web Crossing to display a note stating
that a message has been deleted. You can turn this off in the
Control Panel > Customizing > Discussions
section. A trick to rememver: If,
for some reason, you want to retain these notes, but want to delete
a message without having it flagged, first move it to a hidden
discussion and delete it there.
| Note:
If
you don't update your search index
after you or a user makes deletions, the first couple of lines
of the post will still show up when a user does a search.
If they click on the post to try to view the whole message,
they are sent to the place in the discussion where it was
deleted from. Rebuilding the search index will update the
search index so deleted messages don't appear in search results
either. |
Deleting
Users
You
can delete one user at a time by going to the Control
Panel > User management > Remove a user. There, you
have the option to remove the user's picture as well. If you are
serving pictures and the picture is objectionable, the simplest
thing is to delete it at the same time.
Deleted
users' posts are not removed. Thus if the picture is objectionable
it will continue to be shown next to the deleted user's posts
unless you remove the picture when you remove the user. You can
remove the picture later (Control Panel
> User management > Clear a user's picture) if you
wish.
You
can delete a large number of users at once by using the delusers.tpl
template file (found on the Web
Crossing FTP server in the /pub/WebCrossing/Extras/Templates
folder) into your webx.tpl file.
- Install
delusers.tpl into your webx.tpl file and reset your file
cache.
- Export
an ASCII file of your user list by choosing "User full
name (last, first)" from the list of options.
- Call
the macro directly by using
http://yoursite.com/webx?deleteUsers@@
- Paste
in the user list (or do it in chunks if it's long) into the
text box there and submit the form.
- Note
that the macro only deletes the users and not the users'
pictures.
For
more information on how to install and use macros, see the Macros
section.
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