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avatar rytechsites
rytechsites
26 Feb 2025

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If you delete a user from the system, this will mean you have 'orphan' articles, categories, and other items within Joomla, which creates problems and you can no longer save those records, unless the create by is changed.

Describe the solution you'd like

if you want to remove a user from the system, you have to write manual SQL queries to re-assign the created by to a different author for:

  • categories, articles, menu items and more

There should be an ability to batch the change create by author for Articles, Categories, and other items as needed.

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avatar rytechsites rytechsites - open - 26 Feb 2025
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 26 Feb 2025
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avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - labeled - 26 Feb 2025
avatar fgsw
fgsw - comment - 27 Feb 2025

Just for history a (closed) example: #18160.

avatar alikon alikon - change - 27 Feb 2025
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avatar alikon alikon - labeled - 27 Feb 2025
avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 1 Mar 2025

Also for history: #40751.

avatar degobbis
degobbis - comment - 13 Mar 2025

And to complete the list - Here is my plugin for this problem:
https://github.com/joomtools/plg_system_jtchuserbeforedel/releases/tag/1.0.1

FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.

avatar tecpromotion
tecpromotion - comment - 13 Mar 2025

FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.

I just tested it in a 5.3-beta2 and it works. Really well, in fact!

avatar rytechsites
rytechsites - comment - 17 Apr 2025

FYI: It should also work in Joomla 5, but I haven't tested it yet.

I just tested it in a 5.3-beta2 and it works. Really well, in fact!

To confirm, this is in Joomla 5.3? That would be great, thank you!

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