Delete projects

Deleted items move to the Recycle Bin for 30 days and can be recovered only by the Workfront administrator.

For more information about restoring objects, see the article Restore deleted items.

If the project has tasks or issues with logged hours, the Workfront or group administrator must allow the deletion of these tasks by configuring the Task & Issue Preferences in your Workfront instance for you to be able to delete the project that contains the tasks.

For more information about enabling the deletion of tasks, issues , or projects where hours are logged, see the “Deletion” section in Configure system-wide task and issue preferences.

When you delete a project, you impact other objects linked to the project.

The following objects attached to a project are also deleted when you delete a project:

• Documents

  You cannot delete a project that has an attached document which has been checked out. For more information about checking out documents, see Check out documents.

• Tasks

• Subtasks

• Issues

• Updates

• Approvals

• Expenses

• Risks

• Baselines

• Business Case information

• Queue Details information

• Billing Rates

• Billing Records

  You cannot delete a project that has Billing Records with a status of Billed. For more information, see Create billing records.

Depending on how your Workfront administrator configures the Project, Task, or Issue Deletion Preferences in the Timesheet & Hours Preferences of your Workfront instance, hours logged for the tasks, issues, or the project are handled in one of the following ways when deleting the project:

• The hours stay on the timesheet as general time.
• The hours are deleted and will be restored if the project is ever restored.

For more information about configuring the deletion preferences for hours logged on issues, see Configure timesheet and hour preferences.

If the project you delete is linked to an initiative in the Workfront Scenario Planner:

• The initiative remains on the plan, but the link to the project is removed.

• If the project you delete is linked to the only published initiative from a plan, the indication that the plan has been published is also removed.

• If you recover a deleted project, the project is recovered, but its link to the initiative is not restored and the Scenario Planner area no longer displays in Project Details.

  The Scenario Planner requires an additional license. For information about the Workfront Scenario Planner, see The Scenario Planner overview.

  For information about projects linked to initiatives in the Scenario Planner, see Update or create projects by publishing initiatives in the Scenario Planner.

If the project is also an activity for a goal in Workfront Goals:

• The project is deleted from the goal. The progress indicated on the goal by the project is also removed.

• If you recover the deleted project, the project is also restored as the goal’s activity.

  This requires an additional license. For information about Workfront Goals, see Adobe Workfront Goals overview.

  For information about associating projects with goals, see Add projects to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.