Hide a Role

[akshay jadhav]

Hello All,

We no longer want to use the HRSD module. Initially, our requirement was to uninstall the HRSD module, but since uninstalling is not possible, we have deactivated the all HRSD module. Now, we also want to hide all HRSD roles from the roles table, as well as prevent these roles from appearing in the slushbucket during role assignment to user.

We noticed that there is a "Delete" option available on the role records. We would like to know : is deleting the roles the correct approach? Could it cause any unintended impact elsewhere in the system? What would be the recommended solution for addressing our concern?

Thank you

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi,

If you are no longer using the roles or the plugin then i don't see an issue in deleting them.

Before you delete make sure that these roles don't inherit a role that will impact negatively users that have this role. 

Also make sure you take this role away form users before deleting it.

[akshay jadhav]

Hello Anurag,
Thanks for reply,
I came across information on Google stating that missing roles in an instance could potentially cause errors during an upgrade.

[Anurag Tripathi]

It might but you essentially are not using that role.

The only other way would be what Sandeep Suggested but it will be a lot of processing as that query would run a lot, each time a role is added to any user.

[akshay jadhav]

Yes, you are right, but it has to be done that way; otherwise, the instance will always generate error records after an upgrade.