Deleting elements

To delete a business application item, find it in the appropriate tab, and then select the option from the context menu (kebab menu) Delete.

It is possible to delete only the entire artifact, not its individual versions.

Figure 1. Context menu for a composite component

The artifact being deleted cannot be used by another artifact. An attempt to delete such an artifact will be aborted, and the user will be informed about the dependencies preventing deletion.

During deletion, the artifact cannot have a draft version. An attempt to delete such an artifact will be aborted, and the user will be informed with an appropriate error message.

Artifacts that can be deleted

• Forms

• Processes

• Composite components

• Contents

• Scripts

• Script validators

• Script tasks

• Emails

• Dictionaries

• Formatters

• Custom components

• Printouts

Information about the deletion of the artifact is recorded in the logs as follows ("artifact1" and "22100" here indicating an example name and an example identifier of the deleted artifact):

[designer] 2017-02-20 09:06:06,413 CET [main] [INFO ] p.c.i.g.t.t.v.c.a.remove.ArtifactTrashCommand     :32 - > Removing artifact [name=artifact1, id=22100][designer] 2017-02-20 09:06:06,489 CET [main] [INFO ] p.c.i.g.t.t.v.c.a.remove.ArtifactTrashCommand     :34 - < Artifact [name=artifact1, id=22100] removed successfully

Safe deletion

Deleted artifacts and folders can be safely restored using administrative scripts, provided that 3 days have not passed since deletion. Information needed about deleted folders and artifacts can be read from the application logs.