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Is there any method of removing unwanted application?
Normally you can't do that from Designer Studio.
When an application has any processes or other elements it requires to remove them first
- the Studio prevents from having orphaned elements.
It is ok unless you want to remove the whole application.
The application I want to remove is quite complicated and removing all sub-elements would be very time consuming and tricky to find out which element should I remove first, etc.

Is there any other way of unconditional removing the whole application with all its elements?

MS

P.S. Maybe there is a way to cut out everything about the app to be deleted directly from DB?
For sure, it could be a way faster than manual procedure.

MVP

Hi Marcin,

unfortunately I'm not aware of such an option, also I would be really glad if there would be such an option. :)

This is my step list:
- Delete All workflow instances form all processes in the application using the 'Administration tools', I attached a screenshot
- Remove all UI elements in this order: Dashboard, Reports, Start. Maybe removing the Dashboards would be sufficient.
- Delete all process relations
- Delete all "normal processes"
- Delete all dictionary processes
- Delete all document template processes

You need to delete the "normal" processes first because they may reference a dictionary processes as a data source. If you have created a cycle you may have to delete one reference first. This may happen, when you have created a BPS Internal view for two processes, which are used picker field in those processes.

Using the hot keys the following approach will be quite fast to delete (UI) elements:
1. Select the last element in a category, for example the last dashboard
2. Press ctrl+del
3. cursor left followed by enter
4. Repeat 2 and 3


Best regards,
Daniel

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