remove users from anonymous groups

[sunit...@gmail.com]

In dspace how to remove users from anonymous groups and delete permanently.

When we try to remove any user we get an error as

Groups this E-Person is a member of:

• Anonymous

• This eperson is unable to be deleted because of the following constraint(s): eperson has submitted one or more items, and eperson has a workflow task awaiting their attention.

How can we delete users who do not exist anymore.

reg

[DSpace Technical Support]

This sounds like you may be using DSpace 6 or an earlier version of DSpace.  This issue was fixed in DSpace 7.0 (and any later releases) and it's now possible to delete EPersons even if they are referenced elsewhere in the system. This was fixed in https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2229

In DSpace 6 or earlier, you may be blocked from deleting these referenced accounts.  You may want to instead clear out all the user information in that EPerson object (leaving a fake/empty object).  Others may have other suggestions of ways around this, or you could upgrade to DSpace 7.x.

Tim

[DSpace Technical Support]

I should also add that the "Anonymous" group is not the problem. This group is *always* empty and it simply represents all anonymous users accessing the system.  So, the problem is that this EPerson has submitted Items in the past, or has workflow tasks assigned to them.

Tim