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Deleting Users: Delete from Windchill Action
The Delete from Windchill action is useful when your directory server is read-only and you are not expecting the user to return to the company. If you are able to modify user entries in your directory server, PTC recommends using the Delete from Windchill and Windchill Directory Server action instead. For more information, see Deleting Users: Delete from Windchill and Windchill Directory Server Action. If the user will return to the company after a short absence, you can deactivate the user account rather than removing the user entirely. For more information, see Temporarily Deactivating a User.
To delete one or more Windchill users without removing his or her directory service entry, use the following procedure:
1. Add the participants you want to delete to the Participant Administration table. For more information, see Finding Participants.
2. Select the checkbox in front of each user that you want to delete, or select All to select all users in the table.
3. Delete users by selecting the Delete from Windchill action from either the Actions menu or the right-click actions menu.
4. From the confirmation window, click OK.
The users are deleted and removed from the table.
5. Perform clean-up activities for each participant deleted.
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If a user has been removed from Windchill but not from the directory server, the user can still logon to Windchill. If a logon occurs, a new user object will be created in Windchill. To prevent this from happening, you can take additional steps to disable the user in your corporate LDAP. For example, you could move the user to a node that is not part of the Windchill search subtree.
Details about the deleted user, such as the user’s name, are retained in Windchill to allow searches for objects created by the user and to maintain auditing logs. The user also remains a member of any context teams, but be marked as deleted. The deleted user will be removed from all user-defined groups. Any access control rules defined for the user are also removed.
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