Admin tools: Inactive User Cleanup
In the first step admin user of the site setup days of inactivity and drafting notification mail for all users from the Site administration > Reports > Inactive User Cleanup
If an inactive user is found he/she gets a notification mail.
In second step if the user still has not accessed the moodle site within the time span which is mentioned in the notification mail. Then the deletion process starts. The particular inactive user account entry is removed with next run of this cleanup process which is automatically or manually run by cron process.
Using
Some setting is require for this cleanup process.
Days of Inactivity is set by the admin user.
Days Before Deletion is set with zero when admin just wants to notify the inactive user for access the site i.e. in first step. After that when user wants to run cleanup process then Days Before Deletion will set by the admin user.
Email setting
Admin user must set the subject and body text of the email.
Cron process
Admin user run cron job manually from http://<moodlename>/admin/cron.php
Uninstall
Admin can uninstall this admin tool from Site administration > Plugins > Admin tools > Manage Admin Tools
Contributors
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Kindly check your email, I have responded over mail. Please let me know if we can help you with anything else.
Thanks & Regards,
Priyasha.
I installed your plugin but my site doesn't pick up your settings page so I can't edit the settings. It installed as any other plugin would install and the settings.php file, index.php, and all the other files etc is there in the plugin folder, but the Moodle site does not see it so I can't get to it. Any idea what could be causing this?
Thanks for reaching out! You need to unzip and then copy the "inactive_user_cleanup" folder to the path your_moodle_folder/admin/tool and then go to Site administration ► Notifications and install the plugin.
Or you can install from the site map:- Site administration ► Plugins ► Install plugins
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks and Regards,
Arindam
I'm trying to make this plugin to work for a month already, and seems it not working ok...
In cron log it report this:
> Processing cron function for tool_inactive_user_cleanup...
> ... started 15:05:16. Current memory use 13.1MB.
> Hey, admin tool inactive user cleanup is running
> done. (599 dbqueries, 0.53 seconds
but it never delete any user.
Moodle version used: Moodle 2.9.8+ (Build: 20160915)
Please download our latest version of this plugin and set up background server cron.
Useful link :- https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Cron
Let me know if this helps!
Thanks and Regards,
Arindam
Im having an issue with this plugin. When it runs in the cron job it reports a very large amount of "days before delete" for the inactive users and of course, it never deletes them. Why is that happening?
This is a sample of the report I get:
Processing cron function for tool_inactive_user_cleanup...
... started 08:30:49. Current memory use 32.9MB.
Hey, admin tool inactive user cleanup is running
days before delete864000
days before delete864000
days before delete864000
days before delete864000
days before delete864000
done. (2166 dbqueries, 1.43 seconds)
Thanks
Yoel FV
Download the latest version then go to "Your moodle directory"/admin/tool folder and your old "inactive_user_cleanup" folder; replace with the new one.
Then clear all the caches.
Let us know if your issue still exists!
Please install the latest version of the plugin and clear the cache.
Thank you.
Thanks for reaching out to us.
We are sorry for the inconvenience that you experienced.
This cleanup process runs with Moodle cron job. And the email sent to the Inactive user depends on of your time interval of cron job of your server.
Please go to Site administration / ► Reports / ► Inactive User Cleanup / ►set the "Days Of Inactivity" and "Days Before Deletion" fields as per your requirement.
For more details: https://github.com/dualcube/moodle-tool_inactive_user_cleanup/blob/master/Readme.txt
Hope it helps!
Thank you.
I've had a couple of issues on installation on to my test moodle (v3.5). Firstly there was an error message in the installation. It said Wrong PATH attribute in XML file. So in admin\tool\inactive_user_cleanup\db\install.xml file I changed line 2 from PATH="tool/inactive_user_cleanup/db" to PATH="admin/tool/inactive_user_cleanup/db". This made the installation work, although I don't know if it will affect other things.
Secondly, on installation it deleted and emailed nearly all users apart me and the admin user. It's on a test site, so not the end of the world, but how can I get the users back and more importantly not make that happen if I re-install it again?
thanks, Simon
Firstly, the changes in the path will not affect other things and secondly, if you make no change in the inactive user's setting and run the cron, it will not remove any user.
It will remove the user if you set the specified date or time in inactive user's settings and if the user is inactive in that period.
Lastly, the removed user will not be recovered as there is no option available in Moodle.
Thank you.