Deleting record types or families

You can delete a record type or family in a schema.
Before you delete a record type or family consider the impact to existing schemas, states, actions, hooks, and queries. For information see Naming restrictions.

You cannot delete the following record types:

To delete a record type or family:

  1. Start the Designer.
  2. In the ClearQuest Schema Repository Explorer view, expand the Record Types, Record Types - Stateless, or Record Type Families folder and select the item you want to delete.
  3. Right-click in the ClearQuest Schema Repository Explorer and click Remove.
  4. Click OK to delete the record type or record type family.

Deleting a record type affects links to existing child records and references to the deleted record type name in hooks, scripts, and queries. All elements associated with the deleted record type must be updated.


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