Clearing Selected Input Data from POVs

You can clear or delete selected objects (artifacts) from a POV. This is called a Comprehensive clear and deletes all artifacts of the selected type (Clearing Selected Artifacts from POVs). You can also create a query and perform a Targeted clear, described in this section, which deletes a specific slice of input data. This is useful, for example, when you want to delete other input data without deleting drivers.

To delete an entire POV, including its associated assignments and driver selections, see Deleting POVs and All Artifacts.

To clear specific input data from a POV:

1. Ensure that no other users require the POV and its current data.
2. Create a query that returns the data you want to clear (Managing Queries).
   Since only input data is cleared, the Rule dimension must be set to NoRule. For the Balance dimension, selected members must be only Input, identifed by the member name.
3. Display the Points of View screen (Opening the Points of View Screen) or Execution Control screen ( Opening the Execution Control Screen ).
4. Select the POV that contains the data to clear.
5. Select Actions, and then Clear Point of View, .
6. In the Clear Point of View screen, click Targeted.
7. Select the Query to locate the data you want to clear.
8. Click OK to clear the data returned by the query.

   See the Job Library to view a record of the operation.