Back Forward Understanding the delete toolbar operation

Click the Delete toolbar button (Delete or Delete with checkout ) or keyboard shortcut CTRL + D to delete the currently visible rule. The results of this operation depend on:

If this rule is in an unlocked RuleSet that does not require check out, clickingDeletedeletes the rule. If the rule is checked out and so is in a personal RuleSet,Delete with checkoutadds a line to the history of the (surviving) rule. You are prompted to confirm the operation. CONFUSED REALLY?

Restrictions

Several conditions prevent a delete operation from completing:

Notes

NoteIf you delete a rule or data instance by mistake, you can perform a Save As (Save As..) operation if the form is still visible. (Click the Save As button first; you cannot immediately perform a Save or Check In of the deleted object.) R-11868 If it is too late to do the Save As operation, see How to recover (undelete) a deleted rule.

NoteDeleting a rule does not delete the associated History-Rule instances; these support auditing and the Recover function. Over time, the database table that (pr4_history_rule in the default schema) saves History-Rule instances may contain many rows that no longer are useful. Your database administrator may purge older rows of this table. Q-1362

NoteWhen you delete an empty class derived from the Work-, Data-, or Assign- base class, the system deletes the associated History- classes if they are also empty. R-11901

definitionsblocked rule, circumstance, time-qualified rule, withdrawn rule

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