We are using the comment function of activities as our feedback mechanism. We want to keep comments visible on the customers profile regardless of whether the user who left the comment is still in the database. Is there no way to retain those comments and have them be visible, even if the commenter is no longer an active member?

What is the minimum necessary to allow viewing of older comments by members? Is it simply that a record exists in the user database with their user id / username? We will not allow previous comments to disappear, so please tell us how CB Activities determines whether a user exists or not. Is it from the user database? Is it from the comprofiler database? What field, exactly, is CB Activities looking at to determine whether or not to display comments from the user?

Is there something inside the vast tool kit of Community Builder that would allow me to recreate an old messages list for each user? It would be separate from CB Activities, which we will use going forward for our feedback mechanism. But if we wanted to create a kind of history/archive listing of comments from past users (many of whom no longer have active accounts), is there a particular CB tool that we should look at? Since we still have all of the old feedback data in the database.

I was thinking of trying to create a new CB List and use the Filter function to do this, but it seems that the List creation tool only has access to comprofiler and user database fields.