Archiving and Deleting Views

You can archive or delete views that you no longer need.

Archiving a View

Before you can archive a view, you must:

• Archive all active viewpoints, see Archiving and Unarchiving Data Chain Objects

• Delete any draft viewpoints, see Deleting a Draft Viewpoint

To archive a view:

1. From Views, inspect a view.

2. Select General and then click Edit.

3. From Status, select Archived and then click Save.

The view is no longer displayed in the Views list.

For more information, see Understanding the Lifecycle of Data Objects and the Data Chain.

Displaying Archived Views

You can display both active and archived views in the Views list. By default, archived views are not displayed.

From Views, click , and then select Show Archived. You can select this option again to display active views only.

Restoring an Archived View

You can restore views to Active status that were temporarily archived or archived in error.

To restore an archived view:

1. From Views, inspect a view.

2. Select General and then click Edit.

3. From Status, select Active and then click Save.

Deleting a View

If a view is no longer needed and you have no reason to archive it, you can delete the view. Deleting the view is allowed only if the view contains no viewpoints. For example, you can archive and delete all active viewpoints for a view, and then you can then delete the view.

To delete a view:

1. From Views, click , and then select Delete.

2. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.

   Note:

   The view cannot contain any active or archived viewpoints in order to be deleted. You must delete all viewpoints before you can delete a view.

The view is removed from the Views list.