If you can access the functionality, and you have write access to the records in
question, then you can delete i2 Analyze records from the Information Store through Analyst's Notebook. Record deletion is permanent, and it can have a broad
impact that you must consider carefully before proceeding.
Before you begin
Your organization controls your ability to delete records from the Information Store based on the user groups that you
belong to. If you need to delete records but you are unable to do so, contact your system
administrator.
About this task
Sometimes, you might need to delete a record that you or a colleague has uploaded to the Information Store. For example, an investigation
might have come to an end, or you might simply have made a mistake. If you have copies of the
records that you want to delete on your chart, and provided that you have permission to do so, you
can delete them from the Information Store.
Warning: Deleting records from the Information Store cannot be undone, and it has
potential consequences for more records than you can see. All link records must have an entity at
each end, so if you delete an entity record, you also delete all the links that are connected to
that entity. This deletion takes place regardless of whether the affected links are on the current
chart, or their security settings. Deleting a single, highly connected entity record might therefore
affect many link records.
Procedure
The first part of the process involves choosing the records that you want to delete, and deciding how you want to delete them.
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On the current Analyst's Notebook chart, select the items that contain
copies of the records that you want to delete from the Information Store.
Analyst's Notebook populates the Record Inspector with
information about all the records in the selected items.
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On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Share
Records group, click Get Changes.
The records in the
chart must reflect the latest versions of the records that you want to delete.
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If you want to delete records one at a time, select the Page view in the
Record Inspector and find the first record to delete. If you want to delete all
the selected records, select the List view.
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In the Record Inspector, open the More actions menu
and select Delete from Information Store (or Delete all from
Information Store).
The Delete Records from Information
Store window opens.
The window contains a summary of the records that you selected and whether you can
delete them. Common reasons why you might not be able to delete records from the
Information Store include:
- New records
- These records have never been uploaded to the Information Store, so it is not possible to delete
them.
- Blocked records
- The records in the chart do not reflect changes that have taken place in the Information Store.
- Controlled records
- The records in the Information Store are
controlled by a process such as synchronization with an external source, and are therefore not yours
to delete.
- Unaligned records
- If your deployment contains both an Information Store and i2 Connect, you might be
working with some records that are not aligned to the Information Store schema. As unaligned records cannot
be uploaded to the Information Store, it is not
possible to delete them.
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If you can delete any of the records that you selected, click Delete permanently to delete them from the Information Store, or Cancel to close the window.
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If none of the records that you selected can be deleted, close the Delete Records
from Information Store window.
Results
When you close the Delete Records from Information Store window, Analyst's Notebook
Premium updates the state of any of the selected records
that remain on the chart. For example, records that were blocked from deletion are marked as having
Changes available.
If you clicked Delete permanently, then the affected records are deleted
from both the Information Store and the chart. If
a deleted record was the only one in a chart item, then the item is also deleted from the chart. If
you deleted an entity record, then all its connected link records are also deleted from the chart
and the Information Store.