idea Check "Delete Protection" by default in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Check "Delete Protection" by default

LuyangRen — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:04:58 GMT

Hi,

AGO is the main platform we are working on, and most of our web-maps/web-apps need to be protected from accidently delete. Now we have to check the "Delete Protection" manually, which is tedious and also easy to be forgotten. So do you think it makes sense to check the "Delete-Protection: Prevent this item from being accidentally deleted." by default?

Thank you
Luyang

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:39:56 GMT

and maybe this could be an option that is set organization wide by the administrator.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

Anonymous User — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:22:00 GMT

In addition to this, it would be nice to enable/disable "Delete Protection" for multiple web maps at once.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

AndyBills — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 11:27:51 GMT

Hi, a good idea, but I think I'd prefer to have the ability to apply / remove delete protection to multiple items at once rather than automatically add this protection. Otherwise it could be a slow process to delete items during an AGOL 'clean up' of unwanted or obsolete items.

Additionally:

1. These settings should be definable during the Add Item process. This would negate burrowing into the Item Details after loading data.

2. The My Contents listing should have an icon to notify the user of delete protection. This alleviates the user from attempting to delete, only get that operation knocked back by protection. More importantly, it provides delete protection status at a glance.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

BillFox — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:52:56 GMT

Are administrators prevented (prompted) from deleting something if delete protection is enabled?

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

MegHoole — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:05:57 GMT

Interesting idea... I've seen the other side where users are frustrated by not being able to delete an item. I think it should remain an option to toggle (not default to delete protected). But perhaps when the item is created there could be a prompt/option to delete protect immediately, or delete protect later.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

AndyBills — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:13:41 GMT

Hi Bill,

I think any user, regardless of role, is prevented from deleting accidentally i.e. everyone is subject to the delete protection in the same way.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

MatthewStull1 — Fri, 24 May 2019 23:42:17 GMT

Yes! This would be very helpful. Also for feature layers to.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

JwHayes — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:20:58 GMT

Enabled by default across the organization just makes sense. I mean, who thinks "It's okay if I accidentally delete stuff." Nobody, that's who. 😉 🙂

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

TD1 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:20:24 GMT

Agreed. Would like to at least have the ability to turn this on by default at the organization level

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

Laura_B — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 01:09:21 GMT

@LuyangRen @AndyBills we don't have the option to enable delete protection by default. However, with the November release, we added an enhancement to allow members of the organization to enable/disable delete protection for multiple items at a time, from My content. Adjacent to this comment.

We also added a filter to help identify protected items.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default - Status changed to: Closed

ScottBall — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:51:29 GMT

With the ability to bulk-change delete protection and the addition of the Recycle Bin I'm going to mark this idea as closed.

Re: Check "Delete Protection" by default

TD1 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:23:04 GMT

thanks for identifying this. It definitely helps to filter by no delete protection and do bulk edits