You can delete a record type or family in a schema.
Before you begin
Before you delete a record type or family consider the impact to existing
schemas, states, actions, hooks, and queries. For information see
Naming restrictions.
About this task
You
cannot delete the following record types:
- Stateless system record types: ratl_replicas, history, attachments,
groups, and users.
- Record types added by read-only packages. For more information,
see Applying package upgrades.
- The Default record type. If you want to delete the current
default record type, you must first assign another record type to be the default.
To delete a record type or family:
- Start the Designer.
- 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.
- Right-click in the ClearQuest Schema Repository Explorer
and click Remove.
- Click OK to delete the record type or record
type family.
Results
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.