Intro & Warning

Deleting DATA is generally a bad idea. Most of the time you should mark it based on marking that makes sense for the data type, such as 'inactive' or 'closed' or some other status. In some cases you may want to use a UDF as a flag, then move it to the top right part of the edit page.

Things in trees, like assets and classifications are particularly dangerous because deleting one deletes all it's children - even if there are 1000's of children.

Yes, you can give yourself permission to delete.

But if you really want to delete, we do give that option, and we give you a couple ways you can decide how safe you want to be.

When you delete something you didn't mean to:

If you do delete something that you want back, often it cannot be brought back, or it can be a lot of work to bring it back, even for a small item. Often it is cheaper to just recreate it, but it other cases our Professional services can help you bring it back or they can bring it back entirely as at a recent point.

How to allow deleting

Getting to preferences

The Access manager requires admin permissions (YOU decide what permissions it needs, not us, that is discussed elsewhere.) The Access Manager is on the Configuration page

Start by opening the main menu

Start by clicking on the main menu button on the left panel, top left portion.

If the menu button isn't visible, you are likely on a screen too narrow to see everything, press on the left pointing gold button to take you so you can see the menu button.

Once the menu is up, the exact location of the configuration button depends on how wide your window is and how many options you have access to. On most it will be at the top of the 2nd or 3rd column of the menu but on a cell phone or narrow window, it will be down partway in the first column.

Then from there you choose the Access Manager, or what we call the funny green key

You can also click on the right hand V button in the main menu (if you don't already have it open), noting if you do it this way, you can directly pick the Access Manager tool that you want to go into.

Now press the Preferences button

In preferences you can search through the tree, or you can filter like I did below to find all the items with delete. Read the descriptions to make sure you are editing the ones you want.

If you are going to allow delete some suggestions:

Restrict what users can do it, only allow a small number of users to delete. See the Set preferences for choice near the top.

Consider creating a special user who is given delete permissions, and has most other choices REMOVED so that you remember you are running in a dangerous mode. For example if your user account is Samantha, consider a special user SamanthaDelete who is given delete permissions and many others removed.

You can set the delete option up in a few ways:

"No Delete" this is obviously the safest.

'Delete with Confirmation Test' will require that you type the word 'Delete' (if English, whatever the word is in our translation system for other languages). By forcing yourself to type the word 'Delete' you minimize the chance that you just click an OK button without actually reading it.

"Delete with Confirmation" is the most dangerous, but it makes it the easiest to delete large numbers of things because it just asks you to click on an ok button.

There is no "Delete with no safety measures" option. If you want that and you have a lot to delete, you may want to enlist our Professional services to do it using SQL that we will discuss with you before running. This is the "Delete with complete abandon", but can delete pattern based such as "Delete all that start with "zzzDeleteme" in their ID.