You might want to deactivate a user so they cannot sign in to Fuse. When a user is deactivated, their user account and data are not deleted and remain in the system. You can reactivate a deactivated user at any time.
Deactivating a user is not the same as deleting a user. To permanently delete a user and their data from Fuse, see Deleting a user's data from Fuse.
You cannot deactivate a user if they are a community admin. You must remove the user as a community admin / transfer the community admin role to another user before they can be deleted.
If you attempt to deactivate a user who is a community admin, a message appears displaying the ID for each community in which the user is an admin. To see a complete list of communities including admins, run the All communities report on the Reporting screen. If your Fuse instance has a large number of communities, you can use a VLOOKUP function to narrow down the list.
To deactivate multiple users at the same time using a CSV, see the Deactivating users by CSV section in Bulk import of users tab.
How are deactivated users affected?
The following applies to deactivated users:
They are prevented from signing in to Fuse / authenticating into the system
They cannot receive push or email notifications
Any existing authentication tokens are destroyed
The following data is retained for a deactivated user:
Community memberships
Content views
Profile views
Assessment results
Assignments
Explicit community settings - permission to upload content to communities
Activities
Favourites
Profile favourites
User groups
Content signatures
Admin group memberships
Public activities
The following data is deleted for a deactivated user:
Auto login token
Device tokens
OAuth tokens
Membership requests
How to deactivate a user
To deactivate a user:
On the Manage users screen, locate the user you want to deactivate.
Slide the Active toggle to the left.
The confirmation screen appears.
Click Confirm.
The user is deactivated.
To reactivate the user, slide the Active toggle to the right.
