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Can't delete a view.

ROBERT ACTON
Beginner
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?
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
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
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
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
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14
Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
ROBERT ACTON
Beginner
Thanks guys, problem solved. It was a cloned view. This was never an issue in 13 but I know what to do now.