An Entry marked for Deletion will be permanently deleted from the system after 30 days. Only the system administrator can undelete an Entry. 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.

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

Deleting an Entry

• From the Browser Location front view of a Location linked to the Entry, select the View link for the required Entry.
• From the Entry View, select the Details link.
• If not already selected, select the Details tab.
• If the criteria for Deleting the Entry (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 Entry.
• 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 Location for the deleted Entry.
• The deleted Entry will no longer show in normal views, but the Entry 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 an Entry.

• You must be the current Owner of the Entry.
• The Entry cannot be in a Locked state.

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

This behaviour is intentional, to avoid orphaning items relating to Entries that no longer exist. Whenever another User adds an item (e.g. a Review) or links to any Entry owned by another User, they must accept that the Entry owner has the right and ability to have these items deleted if the Entry Owner decides to delete the original Entry on which they are dependent.

Note: This is different from the deletion criteria for Categories and Locations as it relates to Child Locations. Dependent Child Locations are protected.