Preventing Deletion of certain users in a plugin

It would be possible to monitor the User.BeforeDelete event and throw an exception when a protected user is attempted to be deleted. This will stop the deletion from proceeding.

Hi Ben, I noticed one issue with this which is that the user is left in the 'disapproved' state after the delete fails. It's better than them being deleted but not ideal as it will involve an manual process to update their status. I tried to resolve this using the update method to change the users account status but it doesn't work. Any ideas on how I can resolve this?

_eventLogService.Log($"User is protected so will not be deleted: {user.Username}.");


//change user status back to approved after failed delete 
Apis.Get<IUsers>().RunAsUser("admin", () =>
{
Apis.Get<IUsers>().Update(new UsersUpdateOptions
{
Id = user.Id,
AccountStatus = "Approved"
});
});

throw new Exception("Stopping User Delete as user is protected");

If you are trying to do it in the before event, you should just need to change the event args value, not run the update.   However  the disapproval will potentially override your change later in the pipeline per our business logic.  You will have to manage it somehow using a combination of before then handling the after update event while preserving state.

If you are trying to do it in the before event, you should just need to change the event args value, not run the update.   However  the disapproval will potentially override your change later in the pipeline per our business logic.  You will have to manage it somehow using a combination of before then handling the after update event while preserving state.