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More direct workflow to permanently delete content items

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2 weeks ago
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PeterKnoop
MVP Regular Contributor

When you are creating services on ArcGIS Online, such as sharing a raster to make a hosted tile layer, uploading a spreadsheet to publish as a hosted feature layer, one sometimes makes mistakes. Often the easiest thing to do is to delete all of the content items that got created on ArcGIS Online, and then share or upload again. With the new Recycle Bin (yay!), you now get an error about the service name already being in use.

With the Recycle Bin in place, when you delete a feature service from your Content, it still retains its claim to the service name, until it is permanently deleted from your Recycle Bin. So to clean up your mistake and try again, you now need to take the extra steps of going to the Recycle Bin and permanently deleting things, before you can proceed with re-sharing or re-uploading.

To simplify things, I think it would be helpful to have a quicker way to permanently delete content from the Content view (i.e., both the service definition and the tile layer, or the spreadsheet and hosted feature layer.)

Maybe after selecting the items in the Content view there would be a "More..." option to choose “Permanently delete”, and bypass the Recycle Bin, with an “are you sure” confirmation?

3 Comments
Laura_B

@PeterKnoop, thank you for your feedback. One can by-pass the recycle bin via the Show more + button, allowing you to permanently delete items from the content page.

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Please let us know if that you are looking for an alternative to this.

 

 

PeterKnoop

@Laura_B Awesome! Totally missed seeing that. Thanks for pointing it out!

Laura_B

Sure thing, @PeterKnoop!