{"id":586,"date":"2012-08-29T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/10-Tips-for-Polarion-LiveDocs-6-Deleting-Work-Items\/ba-p\/380711"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:36","slug":"10-tips-for-polarion-livedocs-6-deleting-work-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/10-tips-for-polarion-livedocs-6-deleting-work-items\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Polarion LiveDocs &#8211; #6 Deleting Work Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Carola Hartlieb, Polarion Professional Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to choose the right option for deleting work items from a Polarion LiveDocs\u2122 document.<\/p>\n<h3>Understanding the Document Recycle Bin<\/h3>\n<p>Deleting a work item isn&#8217;t just about removing the work item from your document. Getting rid of it may affect traceability and linking also, so you should not just casually delete work items. But sometimes you just want to get an item out of view and get on with your work on the document.\u00a0 To help you do this, and to prevent undesirable impact elsewhere, the document editor provides a recycle bin similar to the Microsoft Windows recycle bin.<\/p>\n<p>If you just unmark a work item using the work item menu, or delete the description and\/or title of a work item in the document body using your keyboard, the work item is marked as obsolete (as opposed to being permanently deleted) and it no longer appears in the document body. But it is still in the system together with any incoming or outgoing links. Using the document&#8217;s recycle bin, you can review any obsolete work items, insert them back into the document (anywhere in the body), or delete them permanently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/recyclebin.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2184\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/recyclebin.jpg\" alt=\"Work Items in document recycle bin\" width=\"274\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Permanently Deleting a Work Item<\/h3>\n<p>If you are absolutely sure that you want delete a work item permanently you can skip the &#8220;recycling&#8221; step and use the work item&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Delete<\/span> action:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/deletepermanetely.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2185\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2012\/07\/deletepermanetely.jpg\" alt=\"Delete item on work item menu\" width=\"263\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next: LiveDocs Tip #7 Linking Work Items<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carola Hartlieb, Polarion Professional Services<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to choose the right option for deleting work items from a Polarion LiveDoc\u2122 document.<br \/>\n Understanding the Document Recycle Bin<br \/>\nDelet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[1457],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6510,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/6510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}