Deleting elements

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

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

Illustration 1. Context menu for a composite component

The artifact being deleted must not 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.

While deleting an artifact it must not have a working version (draft). 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

• Content

• Scripts

• Script validators

• Script tasks

• Emails

• Dictionaries

• Formatters

• Custom components

• Printouts

The information about the artifact deletion is recorded in the logs as follows ("artifact1" and "22100" here indicating an example name and 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 no more than 3 days have passed since deletion. The necessary information about deleted folders and artifacts can be read from the application logs.