ProjectWise Explorer Help

Delete Folder / Project Dialog

Used to determine which items to delete from the selected folder or work area. Opens when you select a folder or work area and select Folder > Delete.

General tab

Setting	Description
Delete folders	When on, folders are deleted. The effect of this setting also depends on the settings for Delete documents and Delete sets. If these options are not turned on, only empty folders are deleted.
Delete documents	When on, documents in the folder are deleted. The effect of this setting also depends on the setting for Delete sets. If Delete sets is turned on, all documents except the parent files of logical sets and the set files of flat sets are deleted.
Delete sets	When on, all documents and sets in the folder are deleted, if Delete documents is also turned on. If Delete documents is not on, then this setting does not delete any documents.
Delete all subfolders	When on, subfolders of the selected folder also delete. The effect on the documents, sets and subfolders is identical to the settings for the main folder.
Delete corresponding workspace variables

Advanced tab

Setting	Description
Ignore checked out documents	When on, documents which are currently checked in will be deleted, documents which are checked out by you, or locked by another user, will not be deleted. When off, if there are documents in the folder which are checked out to you or locked by another user, the folder deletion fails when it reaches the first of these documents.
Free and delete own check outs	When on, documents checked out to the current user are freed, then deleted, even when Ignore checked out documents is turned on.
Ignore members of undeleted sets	When on, documents are deleted, even if some of those documents are members of sets that exist outside the folder selected for deletion. When off, documents which are members of sets outside the selected folder are not deleted, and the folder deletion fails when it reaches the first of these documents.
Delete old document versions only	When on, only previous versions of document are deleted. The currently active version is retained.
Exclude source folder	When on, the selected source folder itself is not deleted, but the items in it that are specified to be deleted are deleted.
Update GUI on each operation	When on, the ProjectWise Explorer window updates after each deletion. Otherwise, the ProjectWise Explorer window updates once after all deletions are completed.