Question:
Hi,
I have a situation in 4.6C where a derivied role structure was setup as follows:
Parent role
|
--> Intermediate Parent role
|
--> Child role 1
--> Child role 2
--> Child role 3 ...
This was done for a few reasons (parent roles being transported accross systems, plus others...). Now with a change in strategy, I was looking for a way to only maintain one parent - so in effect either
- deleting the Intermediate Parent , and then all children would be linked to the top parent role direct
- more simply deleting the top parent role, and in future only maintining what was now the intermediate parent.
It seems that with PFCG I cannot delete either parent (as it knows that they have children), and I cannot unlink the parent from the intermediate parent (long text says because intermediate parent has children.)
If anyone has a good idea on this, that would be nice.
Thanks and Regards,
DANIEL PARKINSON
Answer:
Working as designed. You can "cut the umbilacle cord" on the children and have them grow up and make life simpler and abandon the paren-child strategy, or programatically perform "invitro" re-attachement.
Answer:
Hi John,
Thanks for your feedback.
I agree. I did the deletions / reattachment and it works as expected. Just have to delete the menu's of the child before reattachment. All set values in PFCG were remembered and not lost when the menu was deleted.
Process is quite mechanical so can be done in CATT or Mercury.
Regards,
DANIEL