The impact of deleting issues
When you delete an issue, you impact other objects linked to the issue.
The following objects attached to an issue are also deleted when you delete an issue:
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Documents
You cannot delete an issue that has a document which has been checked out attached to it. For more information about checking out documents, see Check out documents.
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Notes
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Approvals
Depending on how your Workfront or group administrator configures the Project, Task, or Issue Deletion Preferences in the Timesheet & Hour Preferences of your Workfront instance, hours logged for the issues are handled in one of the following ways when deleting an issue:
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Move to the project and will not be restored on the issue, if the issue is later restored.
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Be deleted and will be restored on the issue, if the issue is later restored.
This also applies when you try to delete projects that have tasks with hours logged on them.
For more information about configuring the deletion preferences for hours logged on issues, see Configure timesheet and hour preferences.
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The users assigned to the issue or to the issue approval remain on the project team.
For more information about project teams, see Project Team overview.
Delete issues
Delete multiple issues in a project simultaneously
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Go to the Main menu.
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Click Projects.
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Click the project name that contains the issues you want to delete.
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Click Issues in the left panel.
A list of issues associated with the selected project displays to the right.
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Select one or multiple issues in the list, then click the Delete icon
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If the deletion is allowed, click Delete.
Your Workfront administrator might not allow the deletion of issues where hours are logged.
For more information about the access and permissions needed to delete an issue, see the section Considerations for deleting issues in this article.
Delete a single issue
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Click the Main Menu icon
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Click the project name that contains the issue you want to delete.
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Click Issues in the left panel.
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Click the name of the issue you want to delete.
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Click the More menu to the right of the issue name.
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Click Delete Issue.
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Click Delete to.
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Your Workfront administrator might not allow the deletion of issues where hours are logged.
For more information about the access and permissions needed to delete an issue, see the section Considerations for deleting issues in this article.