Deleting Objects and Removing Document Files

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The Actions menu iconActions menu offers the Delete icon Deleting Link Documents and Remove document file icon Remove document file actions in hit lists as well as in folder and object views. What is the difference between these two actions?

You need the relevant rights for the Delete icon Deleting Link Documents and Remove document file icon Remove document file actions. If you do not have the corresponding rights, they will not be available to you in the actions menu.

Delete Action

The Delete icon Deleting Link Documents action deletes a business object. Business objects in yuuvis® RAD can be folders or documents, for example. Each business object has metadata. Document objects can, but do not have to, contain a document file.

The Delete action therefore deletes the entire object (the metadata, any document file that may be included, and any existing versions). Deleted business objects can only be restored by the administrator.

The situation is slightly different with the Remove document file action.

If it is not possible to delete one of the objects when deleting several of them, the action will be undone entirely and none of the objects will be deleted.

Remove Document File Action

The Remove document file icon Remove document file action is only available for business objects with document files. While the action is being carried out, only the document file is removed, while the business object itself, including its metadata, is retained.

Strictly speaking, the action creates a new version of the business object without a document file. If a business object has multiple versions, only the document file of the respective active version is deleted. The document files of older versions are not affected.

You can restore removed document files in the version view via the Actions menu iconActions menu > GENERAL > Restore version icon Restore version. Open the version view by navigating to Actions menu iconActions menu > GENERAL and clicking Versions icon Show versions.

In the case of link documents and locked document files, note the following special features: