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Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

ThomasUhrePedersen — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:43:03 GMT

ESRI should develop recycle bin functionality for Portal.

ArcGIS Online is getting one..

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/recycle/m-p/1392012#M57907

There is no news about Portal getting a recycle bin. But I'm not the only user who wants this functionality in Portal also.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/restore-deleted-web-map-in-arcgis-portal/td-p/1389360

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

GeorgeBrown1 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:11:45 GMT

Agree. Just found the AGOL Recycle Bin option this a.m. so hoping the option will be available soon for Portal as an enhancement/patch as opposed to 11.4 option since we just updated to 11.3.

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

MarleyGeddes — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:34:28 GMT

Hi there,

Thank you @ThomasUhrePedersen and @GeorgeBrown1.

We do not provide patches for new functionality or enhancements in older releases of ArcGIS Enterprise.

The ArcGIS Enterprise product team is aware of the recycle bin feature but it is not in the current product plan for the 11.4 release. If possible, we recommend opening an official user enhancements through Esri Support, as this allows the Esri Support team to document the specific use cases and requirements from each customer.

Regards,
Marley

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

ThomasUhrePedersen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:09:47 GMT

Hi MarleyGeddes

I have no idea how to open an official user enhancement if this thread is not the place to ask for new functionality. Nor do I wish for any patch to any current versions of Enterprise.

What I want is for ESRI to put a recycle bin function in the roadmap featureset for the 11.5 release.. So it's positive that the product team is aware of this. 🙂

The basic use case is for an administrator it's difficult to know which items are being used in the portal as it is now. So when I need to clean up the mess of old services, test services etc. Many of these can have similar names.. This makes it very risky to delete items.. If I delete an item that turn out to be in use, the only option I have currently is to restore the entire server, which is a huge complicated process in which I need to involve a lot of other people. Also restoring the entire server will likely overwrite other new items with older ones and cause it's own problems.

Thomas

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

JessicaLM — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:02:36 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately we are unable to commit to a particular release for the recycle bin. The product management team is aware of the request and use case.

Echoing what @MarleyGeddes suggested: I would recommend submitting an official enhancement request through Esri Support. This allows you (and any other user!) who would like to see the recycle bin at a future release of ArcGIS Enterprise to fully document use cases and requirements.

Thank you,

Jessica 🙂

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

HumrahHumrah — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:57:52 GMT

agree
enterprises should also provide recycle bins
whereas if you look at the difference price between arcgis online and enterprise is very large but the facilities provided in the enterprise are less

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

Brian_McLeer — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:37:23 GMT

Just tested on 11.5 and I am not seeing a recycle bin. Maybe on 12....

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

ShaunLunney — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:05:13 GMT

Echoing all the others here...ESRI please bring the Recycle Bin to Enterprise!

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

JD5 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:26:47 GMT

To elaborate, my org would find a configurable recycle bin extremely useful. One that can be set to prevent users from permanently deleting content and can have the retention period set to any amount of time (days, weeks, months, years).

On a related note, it would be great if when administrators delete user content and delete a user, should that user be re-created, they could restore their previously deleted content. (users created with the same identity provider credentials)

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:14:13 GMT

I just looked in 12.1 and no recycle bin... 😥

Re: Recycle bin for Enterprise Portal

Brian_McLeer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:57:25 GMT

@AdrianWelsh maybe 12.2...