7.8 Deleting a Folder Entry

7.8.1 Deleting a Single Entry

You can delete a folder entry if you have appropriate rights to do so. If you do not have sufficient rights, this option is not available to you.

  1. Navigate to and open the entry that you want to delete.

  2. Click Delete in the Entry toolbar.

    Novell Vibe asks you if you really want to delete the entry.

  3. (Optional) Select Purge this entry immediately if you want to purge the entry so that it cannot be recovered.

    IMPORTANT:Selecting this option renders the entry unrecoverable and it is permanently deleted from the Vibe site.

    If you do not select this option, you can undelete the entry as described in Section 7.9, Undeleting a Folder Entry.

  4. Click OK.

7.8.2 Deleting Multiple Entries

You can delete multiple entries within a folder if you have appropriate rights to do so. If you do not have sufficient rights, this option is not available to you.

Deleting multiple entries is supported only in Discussion, Files, and Tasks folders.

HINT:If you want to delete multiple entries in a folder that does not support multiple deletion of entries (such as a Blog folder), you can view the folder as a Discussion, Files, or Tasks folder if the folder owner makes these views available. For information on how to change the view of a folder after the folder owner has made alternate views available, see Section 5.13, Changing the Folder View.

  1. Navigate to the folder where you want to delete the entries.

  2. Select the entries that you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete if you want to move the entry to the Trash.

    If you click this option you can undelete the entries as described in Section 7.9, Undeleting a Folder Entry.

    or

    Click Purge if you want to permanently delete the entries from the Vibe system.

    If you click this option you cannot recover the entries.

  4. Click OK.