Deleting Categories

[phishbed]

Hello all. It's been a long time since I've made a request. We are having repeated problems with our staff accidentally deleting categories. This happens while editing a product when they are attempting to unassign the item from a category. The unassign minus sign can be confused with the trash can sign. I can cuss my data people all I want, but, full disclosure, I've made the same mistake myself. You are also aware that it is nearly impossible to accurately recover the category and its assigned products once it has been deleted. This problem could be easily solved by eliminating the category trash can button on the Product>Category screen. You should only be able to delete categories from the category edit screens.

Here's an image to explain what I mean.

Thanks for the consideration!

Jamin Jones
AOMC

[Rick Wilson]

We're re-doing the UI around this in V10 to help alleviate these kind of issues.

[kayakbabe]

We had that issue too. But deleting a category is a really rare occurrence for us becuase we don't want to lose SEO. Our policy isn't to delete immediately, we usually use the URI system to redirect the link to that category first, and only then delete it. So, I only have one of my employees allowed to delete. Everyone can assign/unassign make active/inactive all day long. but only their supervisor gets to actually delete categories or products. I use the user groups to control what they can do.