7 Delete an entity

During restructuring of a site, some entities may need to be deleted.

Entities here refers to the top level structural elements, like subsite, category, article and locale. These are deleted from their own page, but only if they are not being used or referred to.

Note that:

a.The main subsite cannot be deleted.
b.A default category does not have a page where it can be deleted.
c.A home page cannot be deleted.
d.The master locale cannot be removed.
e.All text for a removed locale is deleted from everywhere, including old versions of articles.

Steps△

The role to perform this procedure is: Master manager.

To delete an entity:

1Open the entity's page

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by, at the Work list page, drilling down to the entity's ID in the Access section, then clicking on it.

The page is displayed, with:

a.If a locale, a table with a Remove row as its last.
b.Otherwise, in its Details section, a Delete row as its last.

If Cannot: appears in the row, go to step 2, otherwise, step 3.

2Clear impediments

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by, after clicking the checkbox if not a locale:
#	Message	Entities	Action
a	Not hidden	subsite, category, article	Click the entity's Hidden button in its Show row
b	Has categories	subsite	Move or delete the categories
c	Has default category articles	subsite	Move or delete the non-home articles in the category
d	Is linked to	category, article	Remove the links from any of the listed subsites or articles
e	Has articles	category	Move or delete the articles
f	Is a next locale	locale	Select another Next selection for the dependent locales
g	Editing articles	locale	Release articles in progress

Clicking the message will go to where the action can be taken, or shows a list of what other entities to take the action upon.

3Delete the entity

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by clicking the checkbox, then clicking the revealed new checkbox, then clicking the Confirm button.

The response is either:

a.If a locale, the Manage: Log in page is displayed.
b.Otherwise, a largely empty version of the page is displayed with Deleted followed by the entity's ID.