Deleting Report Content

Inside of DAS, there are a couple of different ways to delete content such as Reports, ProReports and Dashboards as well as published content.

Deleting a Private Report, Dashboard, ProReport

From Open Report

Click File > Delete, prompting you to confirm deleting your report before clicking Ok to delete.

From My Workspace

Highlight the report(s) you want to delete in the grid. Right Click and select Delete. Data Access Studio will move your deleted reports to the Recycle Bin. Any report in the Recycle Bin can be recovered simply by moving it to another folder. When you delete your report from the Recycle Bin, you will be prompted to confirm the deletion. Upon confirmation, the report will be permanently deleted.

Note

Deleting a report that is used in a ProReport or Dashboard will result in a warning notifying the user of what Viewer (ProReport or Dashboard) will break in the report is deleted.

Deleting a Published Report or ProReport in DAS

There are five different methods of deleting content from the Public Workspace.

Option 1: Inside of the Public Workspace, Folder Admins will have the ability to delete published reports. This places them in the recycle bin. The report can then be deleted permanently from that location. This does not affect the private version of the report.

Option 2: For non-folder admin, as the designer, you can open the private version of the report, select the publish dialog again, and choose "Un-publish" making sure to include all subscribers that have access to the public report. By un-publishing to everyone the report was initially published to, the report is now no longer a public report and can be deleted the same way as a private report.

Option 3: Folder Administrators can remove all subscribers from a report using "Manage Subscribers". Removing all subscribers deletes the published version of that report.

Option 4: DAS Administrators can delete the DAS_PUBLIC version of a report in the 'All Items' dialog.

Option 5: DAS Administrators can remove all subscribers from a report in the 'All Published Items' dialog.

Note

Because private reports that are published don't have to remain the same as the published report, once a published report is deleted either by a folder admin or administrator removing the subscribers, it is possible there is no version of that report available.

Recommendation: As an administrator, if you aren't 100% sure about deleting published content, you can save as a private report to ensure access to that report content in the future remains.

Deleting a Published Dashboard or ProReport in Mobie

To delete a dashboard (or ProReport) from mobie, the original publisher of the dashboard needs to go into the designer and select the publish dialog again. In this dialog, they will see a button to "Un-Publish". As long as all mobie users who originally received the dashboard are listed before selecting Un-Publish, the dashboard will no longer be accessible in mobie.

Once the dashboard is removed from the mobie web portal, deleting a private dashboard follows the same process as deleting a standard private report.

Alternatively, mobie admins are able to remove mobie objects from the admin screen for mobie inside of Data Access Studio.