KB: Delete items from Altium 365 Workspace permanently

Solution Details

Starting with Altium Designer 20.2, deleting items from an Altium 365 Workspace through the Explorer Panel behaves differently than previous versions. Altium 365 has a section labeled Trash, an intermediary container for removed objects from Altium Designer. Users can double-check on the deleted objects from there for final confirmation and either:

• delete the items permanently, or
• restore them if they are to be retained. 

An item can be restored from the Trash page, with editing rights. An item can be permanently deleted from Trash page, provided you have Delete items operation permission.
If users want to clear the entire Trash container of all items at once, they should click on  and then click in the Warning window. 



Items cannot be permanently deleted if a parent item uses it, with the error dialog "Item revisions are referenced by parent item revisions. Please delete them first":

With Pro and Enterprise subscriptions, the Where-used tab in the Explorer panel can be used to identify the parent item. First, restore the child item from the Trash. On the A365 web interface, open the Trash pane, click on the ellipsis icon of the item, and click Restore. Once the item is restored, in the Altium Designer client, View the Panels Explorer, find and click on this item, and make the "Where-used" tab active to see the parent items.

Further reference on this topic can be found in our documentation:

Soft Deletion: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/organizing-workspace#soft-deletion

Trash: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-365/exploring-browser-based-interface#!trash