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john john
Nov 05, 2018Iron Contributor
When Comments are enabled on modern pages. Can we only allow users to delete their own Comments
We are working on a sharepoint online classic team site. and from the sharepoint admin center site, i have enabled comments on modern site pages as follow:- but i have noted that contrib...
Nov 06, 2018
I believe there is not a setting to define who can delete comments and who cannot delete them. The reason why page comments don't go to the recycle bin is because they are not actually saved on a SPO list....they are saved in Azure so I'm afraid there is no way to recover them and also to track who delete the comments (I have just verified this is not captured by the Audit Log in the Compliance & Security Center)
- john johnNov 06, 2018Iron Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
I believe there is not a setting to define who can delete comments and who cannot delete them. The reason why page comments don't go to the recycle bin is because they are not actually saved on a SPO list....they are saved in Azure so I'm afraid there is no way to recover them and also to track who delete the comments (I have just verified this is not captured by the Audit Log in the Compliance & Security Center)so i am not sure if i should really enable the comments on modern pages... because it does not make much sense to allow any contributor to delete any comment, and the user will know that his activity will not be logged and can not be recovered, and users will not get any notification about this
... i am seeing things from end users perspectives , they will not be happy with this ...