Can I undelete a user group?

[Steve Freides]

I mistakenly deleted a user group in the ACP - is there a way to Undo this action?

Thanks in advance.

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[StarArmy]

Not from within Xenforo but you might be able to do some fancy stuff in phpMyAdmin to bring it back.

You could also roll back your forum to a previous backup. Or maybe just the usergroup table or something.

 

[Steve Freides]

I've asked our developer to restore a backup copy somewhere - it's not a big group. I was working with Batch Update Users and got rid of a group before I'd moved its members to a different group.

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[Paul B]

Just recreate the user group and add the members to it.

 

[Steve Freides]

Just recreate the user group and add the members to it.

I need to know who was in the group I deleted - that would be my purpose in retrieving it.

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[Paul B]

The user change log shows that.

 

[Steve Freides]

Very clever! I see it shows a bunch of Secondary User Group, Old Value = 35, new value is blank. Is it safe to assume, since the group is listed as a number and not a name, that this is what I'm looking for?

And is there any way to organize a list of just those people by extracting/reporting from the user change log?

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[Paul B]

Is it safe to assume, since the group is listed as a number and not a name, that this is what I'm looking for?

Correct.
The user group no longer exists so just the old ID is shown.

And is there any way to organize a list of just those people by extracting/reporting from the user change log?

Not via the UI but you could export the table to csv using phpMyAdmin and use Excel or Sheets.

 

[Steve Freides]

Very good - I have enough answers to make a go of this.

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[beerForo]

Also if they were in the group via a promotion you could edit the group promotion to the new group and they would all appear in the new group. Just an FYI.

 

[Steve Freides]

This group existed for our developer to populate via an external program, so it wasn't via a user promotion - the idea is that we had pairs of groups, and after an event, the developer would add them to one group associated with the event, and then I'd send them a welcome letter via the ACP, and move them into the permanent group for the event (if that makes any sense).

I'm on this one. Manually, and hoping it's not a ton of people....

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[Steve Freides]

Project completed - maybe 2 dozen people to edit.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

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