Deleted Workspace

[schmic]

If a user deletes a workspace, this workspace is deleted for all users that are online without confirmation. This is a very dangerous behavior.

[Gil Heiman]

Thanks for bringing this up.

We are currently putting mechanisms in place to safeguard individual workspaces, as well as global spaces, from being deleted for all team members.

Our intention is to prompt users with a choice to go ahead and delete the workspace or to keep it, when a member of the team deletes it on their end (must be a Manager).
Some of this functionality will be available within a few weeks.

For now, you can protect workspaces (as well as folders and objects) from being deleted by others by assigning them "Participant" or "Guest" permissions.

Would this solution address your concern? We are very open to suggestions if you come up with alternative solutions.

Cheers,
Gil
Team-Collanos

[schmic]

It's a good solution to give the users the choice to keep the workspace or to delete it.

[venki]

If a users deletes a workspace, doesn't it mean he/she is merely inviting himself/herself "out" of the workspace ? One reasonable behavior would be to delete the local copy of the user's workspace and remove the user from the workspace members list. There may be an (optional) message sent to others sharing the workspace to let them know that this user has opted out, but beyond that there would be no need to do anything else.

There are many advantages to this solution:

• there is absolutely no space wasted on anyone's disk
• every user at any point of time knows exactly who is sharing the workspace objects
• all copies of the workspace get deleted only when the last user deletes the workspace, so there is a simple way for people who have accidentally deleted their workspaces to get it back by merely inviting themselves back in and synchronizing.

[Gil Heiman]

Thanks Venki for the extensive and valuable feedback.

Deleting a workspace removes the workspace for all members. Soon we will allow users (Managers only) to opt out of this and maintain a local copy of the workspace on their computers.
A message will be sent out to members letting them know that it has been deleted and, for Managers, a message prompting them to save or delete it.

Leaving a workspace, allows the user to remove it from his/her computer without affecting other team members' computers (apart from the fact that the leaving member will no longer be listed on it).

Will this address the issues you brought up?
Your feedback is great. Please keep it coming

Regards,
Gil
Team-Collanos