HOW TO: Use an Active Roles Workflow to delete an Active Directory object with leaf objects (4341061)

HOW TO: Use an Active Roles Workflow to delete an Active Directory object with leaf objects

This is expected functionality.

An Active Roles Delete activity is equivalent to selecting an object, deleting it, and confirming the deletion in native Active Directory tools.

When deleting an object that contains a leaf object in native Active Directory tools, a separate confirmation is required for each individual leaf object. Within addressing these separate delete confirmation dialogs in some way, Active Roles cannot delete the computer object.

Enhancement Request ID#: 438462, was raised to possibly add this in the form of a popup that would allow the user to select an option to "Confirm deletion of leaf objects or to cancel the operation." Please contact your Sales Account Manager for status updates from the Product Manager on when this will be added to a future release of Active Roles.

In the Active Roles SDK, there is a description of an Active Roles Control called EDS_CONTROL_TREE_DELETE

<quote>
Constant:
EDS_CONTROL_TREE_DELETE

Control ID:
10

Details:
This control can be used in a request to delete a directory object.

By default, Active Roles clients cannot delete a container object when it has child objects. If the request to delete the container sets this control to any value, the container and all its children will be deleted
</quote>

Adding this Active Roles Control into the Delete activity in the Workflow will allow the deletion to proceed as desired.

1. In the Workflow, open configured Delete activity.
2. At the bottom of the screen, click on Additional settings
3. In the section titled Include or exclude these controls from the activity operation requests click the Add button
4. For the Control Name enter the following value: 10
5. For the Control Value enter any text.

Please see the attached screenshots.

After saving this modification, this Delete activity will be able to successfully delete leaf objects with no error.

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