Deleting records

Updated in 2025.2

Unless you have a specific reason to permanently remove a record from the database, consider changing its status instead. For example, instead of removing a CI, you can mark it as retired, instead of deleting a Person record, you can make it inactive, etc.

Records with these statuses can be excluded from views and workflows through filtering and workflow customization configured by your Alloy Navigator administrator. For details, see Using the Advanced Filter and Workflow Management.

Alloy Navigator supports both manual deletion of records and automatic removal of inactive unused records that can be configured by the Alloy Navigator administrator. For details, see Archiving records.

To manually delete one or more records:

1. Select the records to delete.

2. Click the Actions > Delete on the Module menu.

NOTE: Some records can be deleted even when dependencies exist, while others cannot. If Alloy Navigator displays a message stating that the record is referenced by other objects, use Show Dependencies to identify and handle those references before trying again. For details, see Showing Dependencies.

Related Information:

Selecting multiple records

Filtering Records

Using the Advanced Filter