topic Re: Can't delete a view. in Modeling

Can't delete a view.

ROBERT ACTON — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:55:33 GMT

So I have 2 Floor Plan views and need to delete one. The "X" to delete is greyed out so no option to delete. Whats the secret?

Re: Can't delete a view.

David Maudlin — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:47:45 GMT

ROBERT ACTON:

One possibility is that the View in is a Folder that was Cloned (small arrow at lower left corner of folder icon), so only the folder can be deleted.

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David

Re: Can't delete a view.

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:02:26 GMT

ROBERT wrote:
So I have 2 Floor Plan views and need to delete one. The "X" to delete is greyed out so no option to delete. Whats the secret?

Can you post a screen shot so we can see exactly what you are referring to?
I have not been able to find any views that I can't delete - whether they are cloned (the whole folder will delete even when only one view is deleted) or not.

Is this a teamwork project?
I have no idea if that would make a difference.

Barry.

Re: Can't delete a view.

David Maudlin — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:57:33 GMT

Barry wrote:
I have not been able to find any views that I can't delete - whether they are cloned (the whole folder will delete even when only one view is deleted) or not.

This is what I see when a View inside a Cloned Folder is selected.

David

Re: Can't delete a view.

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:44:39 GMT

I have just been looking at this.
It looks like it is a new feature that was introduced in version 21.
In 20 and below you can delete any of the views in a cloned folder, but the entire folder will delete.

I guess this has been done so users do not delete a cloned view expecting just that view to delete and not the whole folder.
The user now has to select the folder - which makes sense.

Barry.

Re: Can't delete a view.

ROBERT ACTON — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 22:40:02 GMT

Thanks guys, problem solved. It was a cloned view. This was never an issue in 13 but I know what to do now.