Enabling soft delete

Deleting records is a permanent and irreversible operation unless soft delete is enabled for your database. When soft delete is enabled, deleted records, whether deleted individually or in batches, are removed from the user's view of the database but you have an opportunity to undo the deletion.

About this task

Soft deleted records do not appear in search results or in record lists (when listing and browsing records). A soft deleted record is a record that is marked in the database to prevent it appearing in general use, but without removing the information completely.

If you have system administrator rights:

  • You can view the soft deleted records that are not purged.

  • You can restore soft deleted records.

  • You can permanently remove soft deleted records.

If soft delete is not enabled, then deleting records is a permanent and irreversible operation.

Note: If records are currently soft deleted, you are unable to disable soft delete on your database without resolving these records.

Procedure

To enable soft delete:

  1. Select File > Database Properties.

  2. On the Advanced page, select Soft delete.