topic What happens to the data? in ArcGIS Insights Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874589#M657 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The organisation recently had 10.5 environment update and insights 1.2.1 configured.</P><P></P><P>I am still very new and exploring the insights and 1 question keeps bugging me.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>When using excel as data source, once the excel is added to the insight workbook, it must be get hosted on the pre-configured hosting server.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Once I remove the data-set from the insight card what happen to the loaded excel (or the data-set)? is it get deleted from the hosting server?</P><P></P><P>The reason is, we will be opening&nbsp;&nbsp;few insights licences for some non GIS business units for self-help use. But do not want the hosting server to be loaded with unnecessary data. If the excel or the data-sets remains even after user deletes from the workbook or a card, we expect the data should be automatically deleted from the hosting server.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Any help?</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:50:34 GMT AmitKokje3 2017-09-13T20:50:34Z What happens to the data? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874589#M657 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The organisation recently had 10.5 environment update and insights 1.2.1 configured.</P><P></P><P>I am still very new and exploring the insights and 1 question keeps bugging me.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>When using excel as data source, once the excel is added to the insight workbook, it must be get hosted on the pre-configured hosting server.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Once I remove the data-set from the insight card what happen to the loaded excel (or the data-set)? is it get deleted from the hosting server?</P><P></P><P>The reason is, we will be opening&nbsp;&nbsp;few insights licences for some non GIS business units for self-help use. But do not want the hosting server to be loaded with unnecessary data. If the excel or the data-sets remains even after user deletes from the workbook or a card, we expect the data should be automatically deleted from the hosting server.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Any help?</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:50:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874589#M657 AmitKokje3 2017-09-13T20:50:34Z Re: What happens to the data? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874590#M658 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Once you delete your Insights workbook, the workbook and card data generated within Insights from your excel dataset also gets deleted. (cleaned up).</P><P>Hope that helps.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:40:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874590#M658 DouglasCochran 2017-09-13T21:40:20Z Re: What happens to the data? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874591#M659 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Great!</P><P></P><P>Thanks for the quick help.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Amit</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:47:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-insights-questions/what-happens-to-the-data/m-p/874591#M659 AmitKokje3 2017-09-13T21:47:30Z