Creating a Delete Rule

A delete rule deletes documents from a category after the application has executed and prior to importing new documents.

See Also
About Rules
About Parameters

Context: You must have read/write access to a simulation activity to create a delete rule. You should be cautious about using a delete rule to remove a referenced document because you can delete a reference that is hard to recover. You should always preview a delete rule to ensure that the correct files or references to files are being deleted; see About Referenced Content for more information.

  1. From the search menu in the Top Bar, search for and select the simulation activity in which the delete rule will be created.
    Process Composer displays the simulation activity in the navigation pane and the table page.
  2. From the navigation pane, select Content.
    Process Composer displays the Content page.
  3. From the table page, select the documents or folders to delete.
  4. From the Actions menus, select Create Delete Rule.
  5. From the Create Delete Rule window that appears, do the following:
    1. Enter the Title of the rule.
    2. Select the Delete Step in which the rule will be executed.
    3. Choose whether the rule is Enabled. By default, the value is True and the upload rule will be executed. You can choose a value of False to run an activity without executing its upload rule.
  6. Click Done to create the delete rule.
    Process Composer creates a delete rule for all of the selected documents. All of the documents and the files they contain are deleted from the database when the rule is executed.