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Before you delete that Region or Subregion

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When you are working on the region hierarchy and want to delete a region or subregion, we recommend you carefully consider the impacts of the deletion.

Understand the impacts

You need to understand what happens with your hierarchy, and below are several examples.

When the top-level region of a string of subregions is deleted, the immediate subregion becomes the top-level region.

In the example, the top-level region ‘North America’ will be deleted.

Before

  • North America

    • United States

      • West Coast

        • Los Angeles Site

After

  • United States

    • West Coast

      • Los Angeles Site

When the parent region of a site is deleted, and the deleted region has a parent region that is eligible to own sites then the site shall become the child of its ‘grandparent’ region. Ex.

In the nested regions structure shown, if sub-region C were deleted, then Site 1 would become the child of sub-region B.

 

Before

  • Region A

    • Sub-region B

      • Sub-region C

        • Site 1

After

  • Region A

    • Sub-region B

      • Site 1

When the parent region of a site is deleted and there are no eligible regions to inherit the site, it shall become a stand-alone ‘orphaned’ site. Ex.

In the nested region structure shown, if sub-region B were deleted, the site would not become the child of Region A because Region A is the parent of sub-region C – this would violate the ‘A region cannot own both a sub-region and a site’ rule. Instead, Site 1 would become a region-less ‘orphaned’ site.

 

Before

  • Region A

    • Sub-region B

      • Site 1

    • Sub-region C

      • Site 2

After

  • Region A

    • Sub-region C

      • Site 2

  • Site 1

Okay, I understand and am ready to delete

Delete a Region

  1. Use the All Locations navigation to navigate to the region.
  2. Click the Edit Region and the Edit Region form displays.
  3. Click the Delete and the message displays "Delete this region? When you delete this region, child subregions will become regions. Do you want to continue?"
  4. Click the Delete button.

Delete a Subregion

  1. Use the All Locations navigation to navigate to the subregion.
  2. For the subregion you want to edit, click the Edit Region clipboard_efd47ca2c8595d5871c4834d0d14e013e.png icon and the form displays.
  3. Click the Delete and the message displays "Delete this subregion? This action cannot be undone. Do you want to continue?"
  4. Click the Delete button.

After you have competed the delete, make sure you review the results in Region Hierarchy.