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Add ability to disable the "Delete Project" functionality

We want to lock down the ability to delete a project and add a recycle bin for all deleted work items.  We don't want a Project Editor or anyone else quite frankly to accidentally or maliciously delete a project which includes deleting ALL of the related work items including documents.  Without this functionality we have chosen to not use TEAM because losing documents and work items with no way of recovery is too high of a risk for us. Imagine the disaster if a live project that has hundreds of documents and work items tied to it disappearing immediately with no way to recover them.  An on-premise solution would allow us to restore from backups.  A cloud solution should either disallow this functionality or store deleted items in recycle bins that can only be emptied by an Enterprise Admin and/or empties automatically after 30 days giving time to recover from a deletion event.

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  • Mar 14 2018
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Company Manhattan Construction Group
Job Title / Role Director of Business Systems
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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  • Lisa Love commented
    May 24, 2022 20:39

    This really is vitally needed.

  • Guest commented
    October 14, 2019 19:38

    This would be a great tool to add

  • Stephen Wilkerson commented
    June 06, 2018 13:52

    RECYCLE BINS ASAP PLEASE

  • Guest commented
    May 10, 2018 13:16

    Thank you.  We will give the new functionality a look.  Glad to hear recycle bin is coming as well.

  • Admin
    Sam Schwartz commented
    May 10, 2018 00:31

    Confirming we've shipped the feature as Jim described above - the Delete function has been elevated to the Admin roles and removed from Project Editor. We do have recycle bins on our roadmap as well. 

  • Admin
    Jim Sunderland commented
    March 16, 2018 01:52

    While not providing the ability to disable or a full "recycle bin", we are planning upon limiting project deletion to the Project Administrator role and disallowing this by project editors. We hope to get this into the upcoming release. I'll follow up with confirmation one way or the other. 

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