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kynabaker16
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
July 20, 2021
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Quick Tip: Recommended reports to review when deactivating users

  • July 20, 2021
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While we wish it were not the case, users don't stay with a company forever. Configure a deactivated user dashboard so that you can transition users out and have minimum interruption to your workflows or data.

Consider adding the following reports, each with a prompt, so that you can easily select a user without editing the report filters each time:

  • Open / Assigned Tasks
  • Reports they Own
  • Open / Assigned Issues
  • Dashboards they Own
  • Projects they Own
  • Programs they own
  • Portfolios they own
  • Templates they own
  • Calendars they own [Remember that a calendar report created by the deactivated user will need to be copied by an active user and then re-shared with the users, teams, groups, etc. with whom the original calendar was shared with.)

Using these reports you'll then be able to bulk reassign work or copy certain objects so that you (or another active user) are the new owner.

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3 replies

skyehansen
Community Advisor
July 20, 2021

...template tasks they are assigned to, routing rules they are on, approval processes they are on...

kynabaker16
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
July 21, 2021

Also great ideas! Thank you, Skye!

Level 5
August 9, 2021

This is a great idea, love it!

Is there a way to configure the prompts so that we can search deactivated users? Currently it only allows me to search those who are active.

kynabaker16
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
August 9, 2021

As of today, it's not possible to show deactivated users. Maybe this would be a good thing to share in the Innovation Lab?

Level 5
August 10, 2021

Darn! Thank you, I have shared in the Innovation Lab :)

https://one.workfront.com/s/idea/0874X000000oOIfQAM/detail

ChloeWY
Level 6
April 13, 2022

Hi Kyna,

I like this Dashboard! However, for the "Reports they Own" report, I'm unable to find a way to display report owner. I can't find this in a filter, nor in a column to add. If it's text reporting, would you please share the details?

Thank you!

skyehansen
Community Advisor
April 13, 2022

great call-out. The report's owner is simply the person who created the report. There's not a separate field for it. So you would just use "entered by"

ChloeWY
Level 6
April 14, 2022

Thank you!