Give admins the ability to delete or modify other's lists

Current state does not allow the admins to modify/delete lists that were created by other users, so if somebody leaves your organization their lists remain.

  • Brent Reed
  • Mar 9 2021
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
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  • Elise Daniel commented
    09 May 18:27

    Not being able to delete former employee lists is a HUGE problem in addition to having to open the list and click on dropdowns etc to delete the list. Too many clicks!

  • Peg Mann commented
    11 Mar 18:34

    getting cluttered out here - especially with old employee lists. Admins should be able to anything and everything in the database. An enterprise-class database would have this ability.

  • JoAnn Strommen commented
    08 Feb 19:44

    Not just the ability but an easy way to delete - it's currently 8 clicks and 2 wait while loading to even delete my own. Why can't there be "x" function like there is on the list that is on main window????
    Also need ability to delete those that created by former staff.

  • Carlin Anderson commented
    05 Feb 14:41

    It's ridiculous that this hasn't been fixed yet. Admins need to be able to delete former employees' lists AND to be able to see who created a list. The way this is designed leads to clutter and decreased usability.

  • Beth Muckler commented
    19 Jan 18:57

    This is a HUGE issue and it seems insane that there isn't already a fix for this. Admins should be able to... administrate. Everything. When an employee leaves, it's hugely important to deactivate their account immediately for security purposes. Often the cleanup needs to come later. Our Lists are a mess of old lists that people need to sort through to find the lists they need.

    Please make this a priority.

  • Damon Rosenthal commented
    December 11, 2023 22:06

    One work around would be at least the ability to see who created a List but we can't do that either. Even if the ability to see that was just allowed by Administrators. Such a design unfortunately just promotes a messy database/platform. Please see https://renxt.ideas.aha.io/ideas/RENXT-I-3191 and vote for that item as well. We need to get those votes up to the same level as here.

    One idea in the interim is to have a Naming convention that your user base follows that includes identifying her/himself like initials or name. Depending on any other conventions you may or may not have, it might be best for sorting to have that as the first part of the List name. Of course you can have them edit and clean-up (Delete unneeded Lists) on existing Lists. Overall though this should not be necessary as this as many have said here is basic database structure that we often take for granted as it appears to have been done in this design unfortunately.

  • kelly lauster commented
    March 20, 2023 14:58

    An admin should have the abilty to clean up bad information to prevent further confusion-lists should be able to be controlled by the admin.


  • Sierra Browning commented
    February 22, 2023 19:28

    This is a huge issue for us, especially when folks leave the organization and don't do a cleanup before they leave. I'm dealing with a huge amount of lists that date back 3 years and were created for specific event invitation emails and never used again. Since they created the lists with the "Others can view" option, I can't do any cleanup on them.

  • Adrienne Hessert commented
    January 18, 2023 13:47

    This have become a huge issue for our organization and the ability to be able to delete lists in RENXT, even if only at an Admin level, MUST be addressed quickly! Bad lists, accidental lists and even older lists that were made for past years are still visible and run the risk of being selected when trying to communicate with our stakeholders. While I also agree the create of folders would be nice, simply being able to delete lists is vital and necessary to proper database functionality!

  • Hillary Cote commented
    September 14, 2022 13:39

    This must be reviewed. Lists are a mess.
    1. Bad list is created by a user who doesn't understand how to pull data.
    2. Lists aren't put into folders - or organized in any way at all - nobody knows what list is good or bad or how many there are with the same name.
    3. Bad list is picked up by other team members because of helpful sounding name.
    4. Bad list is mailed to, reviewed for donations, causing bad faith in the data or worse - bad relations with donors.
    5. List cannot be modified or deleted when noticed by the database manager - it just floats around waiting to be picked up again.
    I just had to email a user who is learning Raiser's Edge to disregard a list with a similar name because the data is bad - it sounds ridiculous. Of course when he searches for the list again there will be TWO because of inability to sort the lists.

  • Michelle Wallenberg commented
    September 08, 2022 18:55

    This needs to added to the Admin's control. As the database manager, you need the ability to control the database and this makes for a very messy database list. This makes the Lists option in RENXT look out of control as anyone can just create a list. Then the person leaves the orgnization, and we as the database manager have no control to then "Clean" our database and maintain "Clean" lists. Please make this an option.

  • Deborah Condon commented
    August 24, 2022 20:04

    This has become an issue for our organization also. Admins need to be able to do clean up when a staff member leaves the organization.

  • Lee Grisham commented
    August 19, 2022 15:20

    The security levels in NXT are horrendous and this is a great example of something that would provide more structure for admins. Unless you have access to an inactive user's email, it is impossible to clean up a mess.

  • Guest commented
    July 01, 2022 13:48

    Yes, very important to be able to do this.

  • Guest commented
    July 01, 2022 13:46

    YES! The admin's need to be able to clean up lists from previous employees!

  • Ellen Stack commented
    July 01, 2022 13:45

    Not only should the Admin have the ability to modify and delete, but there needs to be the ability to MASS DELETE for Offboarding an employee. You can't even sort the Lists by the employee, so an employee with 100s of garbage is now junking up the system.

  • Gwen Williams commented
    May 19, 2022 14:39

    We definitely should have the ability to do this. Being an admin means you should have access to everything and thus be able to clean things up/fix things if needed. I can't believe this was not considered!

  • Noor Azrie Petra bin Noor Azman commented
    April 12, 2022 06:05

    It is quite annoying to see clutter of lists and you can't tidy it up. Imagine you worked for years and have hundreds of lists to comb through.

  • Kathy McCleary commented
    April 07, 2022 15:20

    We should also have the ability to create a folder structure for NXT lists. Having no folder structure or ability for ADMIN's to manage is unsustainable.

  • Juliana Sheffield commented
    March 25, 2022 20:53

    Admins need to have full admin rights and be able to delete or modify others' lists. Especially former employee's lists. Otherwise the list of lists becomes overwhelming and cannot be cleaned up.

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