A Location marked for Deletion will be permanently deleted from the system after 30 days. Only the system administrator can undelete a Category Location. The administrator may chose to do this to any item, at which time the Owner of the item will usually be changed to administrator. An Owner choosing to delete any item by default allows this change of ownership.

Locations can be deleted by the Owner using the following method:

Deleting a Location

• From the Location front view of the Location, select the Location Details link.
• If not already selected, select the Details tab.
• If the criteria for Deleting the Location (see Criteria below) is met, the Delete link will be shown in the bottom right of the tab.
• If the criteria is NOT met (see Criteria below), hovering over the Information Icon will give a description of why.
• Click on the Delete link to delete the Category Location.
• You will be asked to confirm your the deletion and warned that the Owner cannot undo this action.
• After the deletion has been completed, you will be returned to the Browser at the Parent Location of the deleted Location
• The deleted Location will no longer show in normal views, but the Location Owner will be able to see it from the User Content view until it is fully deleted or is undeleted.

Criteria

The following criteria must be met when Deleting a Category Location. This criteria avoids orphaning other Category Locations, maintaining the integrity of the heirarchy.

• You must be the current Owner of the Location.
• The Location must have no Child Locations in a state other than Deleted (No dependents).
• The Location cannot be in a Locked state.

There is no Delete limiting criteria associated with any other type of link which may exist for the Location, such as Child Links or Entry Location Links.

When the Location is permanently deleted, all items relating to the Location , such as Links or Comments and their dependent items, will also be deleted. e.g. If a Entry Location Link refers to that Location, the Entry Location Link and any dependents of that Link (comments, issues etc.) will also be deleted. The Entry for the Entry Location Link will not be deleted, as it is not dependent on any Entry Location Link.

Note: If you delete a Location which is the last Location to use a particular Category, that Category will not be deleted, but it can only be viewed by the Category Owner from the User Content view. This is intentional to allow Category reuse, and because the owner of the Category may not be the Location owner, and therefore may not have the authority to delete the Category.