Deletion of RTC Iteration / Timeline (no archiving)
at the moment we're facing the problem that an iteration got deleted. In the history this is shown.
This iteration is not shown anymore. Neither in the archived iterations nor in the active ones. 
The interesting thing is that all buttons we found, corresponding to timelines, just do an archive (not deletion) In the web ui the button is called "Archive": 
And, e.g. in Eclipse it's called "Delete": 
This was tested with an empty iteration (no work itmes assigned to) but it always archives the iteration. In the history you get the information that the iteration was just archived: 
So my question is: How is it possible to really delete an iteration? And the corresponding question is: How to restore such an deleted iteration? Hope you can help me :) Greetings, Simon |
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I don't believe there is a way to delete timelines/iterations even with the repotools (a confusing name on the control "Delete"). RTC only archives them and you can choose to hide those archived from the process configuration properties view, once archived I don't believe there is a way to even restore them from the archived state like you can do with project areas.
If there is a way to truly delete them, I'd be interested in learning how to do it. Had a few instances where we never referenced them from plans or work items and just want to clean up truly unnecessary ones. Comments Hi christian,
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Simon - Thanks for the link and info, I always utilize the eclipse client for process editing and timeline/iteration creation, never even thought to look at the web client. Really though, edit the ".ini" to enable for the eclipse client but it's there in the web.......----sigh----
I guess that the "Delete" control is not mis-named after all. I did think it was odd that the warning dialog does reference both archive and deletion. In every case where I have tested or used the "Delete" control it always archives. Comments Hi Christian,
Iterations cannot be deleted once they are created. The labeling in the Eclipse client is misleading.
The issue reported here is a defect. It was reported here: https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Jazz%20Foundation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=279504
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One good news:
The missing iterations got restored by using a tool from IBM. The tools is mentioned in comment 5 of Defect 279504 This was a big part of the problem. BUT one critical question is still open for clarification: How could this happen and how to prevent this for further happaning? Comments Just for clarification:
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Hi Simon,
There is similar jazz.net work item available: https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Jazz%20Foundation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=270650 which has been fixed in 4.0.4. |
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The more curious thing is that the deletion of the iteration above was done by a "normal" user without JazzAdmin rights - so deleting with RepoTools was not possible for him.