Deleting a domain’s staged entities

You may find yourself repeatedly staging the same set of entities until you achieve the desired results. Between some or all attempts you way want to “clean up” the staging area by deleting some or all of its entities.

About this task

If you deploy a new version of a domain model, the staging areas for the domain’s attached sources are automatically disabled. In this case you can re-enable the staging areas only by deleting all of theirs entities.

Procedure

Select Stewardship > Staged Entities.
In the repository/domain list, select the domain.
If the staging area that contains the entities you want to delete is not selected, select the staging area:
1. Click Select Staging Area
  
  A dialog appears.
2. In the Source list, select the source for which was desired staging area was added.
3. In the Staging Area list, select the staging area.
4. Click Apply.
The list of entities in the selected staging area appears.
Filter the entities list. See steps 4–6 in the Related task for viewing a domain’s staged entities.
Do one of the following:
- To delete selected entities, select their check boxes, click Delete and in the drop-down menu, select Selected.
- To delete only entities in the filter results — click Delete and in the drop-down menu, select Filter Results.
- To delete all of the entities in the staging area, including those not listed due to filtering, click Delete and in the drop-down menu, select All.
A confirmation dialog appears.
Click OK.
For each additional staging area that contains entities you want to delete, repeat steps 3–6.
note
You can also delete all of a staging area’s entities as follows:
1. Go to the repository page for the repository on which the domain is hosted.
2. Select the domain.
3. Select the Sources tab.
4. In the staging area’s gear icon menu, select Clear Data.
5. In the confirmation dialog, click OK.
Another way to delete a single staged entity is to select Delete in the Actions menu in its detail view. This too requires confirmation.