Data deletion requirements

[marcinkoziej]

Creating this issue to figure out how to delete data in Proca backend. The entity structure that it's most perplexing is this hierarchy:

Campaign <---- Action Page <---- Supporter <--- Action
    ^    <-----------^-------------'             ,'
    `---------------- `-------------------------'

There is this hierarchy and then also actions and supporters have links to upper "parents" in hierarchy. Question: What to do with DELETEing Campaigns, or Action Pages that have Actions/Supporters. We do not want to delete action data/personal data in such cases, so options we have are:

1. Option: no deleting allowed

   • campaign or action page with supporters is not deletable

2. Option: delete campaign, leave "orphan" action page

   • might be useful to have an action page, to know what kind of journey produced the actions
   • but such action page might be an annoyance when managing orgs other action pages. For instance, it's name will ba still taken; Where should it be displayed in the UI? In some sort of action page trash bin?

3. Option: delete campaign and action page, leave orphan action/supporter data

   • the member data is still there, so can be recovered
   • but it cannot be attributed back to the campaign, which might or might not be problem (it was removed after all)
   • leaves no mess in the campaign/action page records that are used

[tttp]

I'd add a boolean "deleted" and not delete them or export them by default, but keep the data there, but changing the path to "deleted"+existing path so we don't "block" the path anymore

[marcinkoziej]

You talk about keeping campaign and action page or just action page

[tttp]

I was talking about action pages. For campaigns, I don't have strong opinion, recreating them should be fairly trivia if/when needed if we still have the action pages

But might be good for consistency to havethe deleted flag on the campaign and actionpage?