Put deleted contacts in a trash bin

[#1]

It would be great if deleted contacts just was put in a trash bin for a time before they disapear totaly. This would make it possible to re-activate a contact that was deleted by misstake. The time a deleted contact stays in the trash bin should be customizable.

Lennart Johansson

Zoft 80 AB

Sweden

actsupport.zoft80.com

[#2]

Great idea!

Regards,
Mike Lazarus
ACT! Evangelist
GL Computing, Australia

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[#3]

Or before we deleting the contacts it should prompt for a back up to take!!!

one thing i have noticed when we delete a contact from the contact list it gives message that "deleting contacts cant be undone"

instead of that it should prompt a warning with number the contacts we deleting.

i have noticed in a hurry people deleting current look up instead of current contact button!!!

it was a great idea if there is a re-cycle bin the act db so we can restore the contacts we delete by accident

Regards,

Janard

[#4]

Lennart, I like it!  Perhaps it should only be available to the person who deleted the contact, own the contact (Record Manager), and Manager / Admin roles.

Great idea!

Len

[#5]

In reply to Janard,

I just checked in my copy of ACT! 2010 and when I went to delete the current lookup, it said:

"Are you sure you want to delete:

the 39 contacts in this lookup?

Note: This action CANNOT be undone"

[#6]

In some way it would be great to see who it was that deleted the record. In a large network it has to be possible for me to find which records that I have deleted without having to go over all records in the trash bin.

Maybe it should only be the administrator that can empty the trash bin. Lets say that a user is quitting his job and deletes all his contacts instead of handing them over to a collegue. That could be very devastating for the company, but if all contacts can be re-activated by the administrator, then it has not caused that much problem.

Lennart Johansson

Zoft 80 AB

Sweden

actsupport.zoft80.com

[#7]

Genius, and so simple! Please do this.

As an ACT consultant,  so many of my clients contact's simply "go missing" (with a record of who deleted it, strangely enough) But this happens ALL THE TIME!

I love the idea, should be so simple to put a boolean in the SQL tables to "pre-delete" it. Other databases do this already.

[#8]

Yes, very good idea.

[#9]

Yes - stellar/fantastic idea.  I wonder if deleted fields or contacts could be "synched" into a recycle database which could be emptied, or selectively returned.

[#10]

One alternative is I'll move contacts to another database for safekeeping if I want to delete them from my day-to-day database.

Mike 

[#11]

"This action cannot be undone" message is so anoying it is like the developers are suggesting that that an undo function is physcially impossible to implement when 90% of programs I use have an undo button. It is definately needed. Come on Sage it is about time you did  it. Yes I know it is complicated because you a lot of data in a number of different tables but it is not impossible.