How to leave Activity of users that have deleted themselves

Hi Kyle,
I have a user that has posted quite a lot but then has deleted his own profile. The activity he posted disappeared since he has opted to delete his profile. Instead, I would like to leave the activity he posted but take out all personal information (ie the link to his profile as well as his name in order to comply with GDPR in the easiest way possible). Is that possible?

Here is the activity still present in the table.


BUT, when I (or another admin) block the person, profile etc... I would like ALL his activity and his comments to disappear.

Is that possible?

Is that possible?

No, activity of a user that doesn't exist can not display. It's either deleted or kept but not displayed. There is no anonymous output at this time, but once implemented this maybe a possibility.

Is that possible?

That's already the case. It checks confirmation, approval, and block state of a user before outputting their activity or comments.

Hi I just came up with a potential solution (actually came up with already two days ago but forgot to write it down).
Lets say that we have a trigger that gets acted on when a user (person A) deletes their id and lets say that we have that users id inside the array sent along with the trigger.
Then it would be possible to assign all activity from person A to Person B (change of user ID). IF we then name Person B now "Anonymous Person" (or "person that deleted itself") then we would immediatly have the feature...

AND, that may also be a simple way to have anonymous ie public postings if done the right way.

Yes, you could create a dummy user account to hold those posts. Within CB Activity > Parameters > General set "Auto Delete" to "Disable" then act on the onAfterDeleteUser trigger and implement your custom activity cleanup behavior there.

hmm have no idea how to do it to be honest. I just know that it would work in theory. Can you help? I would need everything to re-assigned to user with id "9025"

You would need to completely implement this your self. Easiest way is probably just a Query action that changes the user_id for any entries the user previously owned across all the CB Activity database tables.