Removing Objects

To remove an object that you own from the Registry, select the object in the Search Results area and click the Delete button.

Do not delete the User object that was created for you when you performed user registration. If you delete this object, you can no longer perform any actions on objects that you published as that user, and you must perform user registration again in order to publish more objects.

Do not delete AuditableEvent objects for objects that you own. If you delete an AuditableEvent object, the audit trail for the object that it belongs to becomes corrupted. (AuditableEvent objects for objects that you own do not appear in the Search Results area if you do a FindAllMyObjects search, but they do appear if you perform a Basic Query for AuditableEvent objects.)

If the object is an extrinsic object, you have two choices:

• Choose Delete Object and Repository Item (the default) from the Deletion Options combo box to delete both the ExtrinsicObject registry object and the repository item to which it refers.

• Choose Delete Repository Item Only to delete the repository item and leave the ExtrinsicObject in the Registry. You can then add another repository item.

The Deletion Options combo box is meaningful only for extrinsic objects.