Delete Components

After you delete a component, it's stored in a Deleted Items folder. The deleted component remains in this folder until you explicitly remove it permanently.

From the Deleted Items folder you can:
  • Export components to save a copy outside of Inspire.
  • Restore components to their original folder if it still exists.
  • Permanently delete a component to completely remove it from inspire.

You can't delete a component if it's:

Locked by another user.

First, View a component without locking it. The read-only viewer will tell you who has locked it.

Next, ask the user to unlock the file.

Locked by you

First, Unlock a component.

Next, in the Components browser, click Refresh.

Locked by the system

Inspire locks a component if it's being used in a review or for another internal process.

First, See details and relationships.

Next, do all of the following that apply:

  • Remove this component from any active reviews.
  • Remove this component from any assignments.
  • Complete or cancel associated translation jobs.
  • Unapprove the component

Used in a Project

First, View projects that reference a component.

Next, remove this component from the project.

Used in a publishing profile

A publishing profile lets you specify a component, an export configuration, filters, and XML validation options once so that you can use it repeatedly.

If you try to delete a component that's included in a publishing profile, you see the following message:

  • Cannot delete components because one or more are used in a publishing profile. Clear all publishing profile references to these components or remove them from your selection and try again.

You also see this warning if you try to delete a folder that contains a component included in a publishing profile.

You see this warning and you can't delete the component(s).

Do one of the following:

Referenced by another component

If you want to delete a component that's referenced by another component, you must remove the references in the other components first.

Forcing the deletion of referenced components

If an administrator enables a feature that allows components to be deleted and relationship links broken:

  • If you are an administrator
  • On the Application Error screen, after you select Close

You are asked if you want to force the deletion of the component and break links:

If you select Yes:
  • The component is moved to the Deleted Items folder.
  • Link relationships are broken.
  • Components that reference the deleted topic are marked as invalid.
  • If you are not also deleting the component that referenced the deleted one, you can use Rebuild all relationships to help resolve linking errors.

If you select No:

  • You must manually remove links from other components that reference the one you want to delete.