Is it safe to delete the standard automatically generated roles?
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Shimada Taro
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Issue
Liferay automatically generates several roles as standard roles
Portal Content Reviewer, Site Content Reviewer, and Organization Content Reviewer can be deleted
Is it safe to delete these roles?
Environment
DXP 7.0
DXP 7.1
DXP 7.2
solution
For the Portal Content Reviewer, Site Content Reviewer, and Organization Content Reviewer, we are aware that if they are not associated with a workflow definition, there is no problem deleting them
By default, it is used within the "Single Approver" workflow
Please note that if you delete each "Content Reviewer" while the "Single Approver" is set to "Private", the role will be automatically regenerated when the "Single Approver" is set to "Public". Please note that if you delete each "Content Reviewer" while the "Single Approver" is set to "Private", the role will be automatically re-created when the "Single Approver" is set to "Public".
To check if a role is referenced, follow the steps below.If the condition is met, the role is referenced in one of the workflows
Check Portal Content Reviewer, Site Content Reviewer, and Organization Content Reviewer role IDs from "Role_.roleid".
Check the value in the "KaleoTaskAssignment.assigneeClassPK" table and see if there is a row that matches the role ID.
If there is a matching line, check that "KaleoTaskAssignment.assigneeClassName" is "com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.Role
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