Deleting a Custom Collector Category
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Only categories that you have created can be deleted. In the System Configuration Collector Categories table, the editable glyph appears to the left of the category name to indicate that the category is a custom category that can be deleted. The out-of-the-box categories cannot be deleted.
Use the following steps to delete a custom category:
1. From the System Configuration Collector Categories table, click the new category icon .
The New Category window opens.
2. Enter text in the Name and Description fields to provide the name and description of the category that displays in the System Configuration Collector Categories table.
3. Add plugins to the category by selecting plugins from the Available Plugins table and clicking Add. Alternately, you can drag and drop plugins into the Selected Plugins table. You must add at least one plugin to a category.
To select multiple plugins to add at one time, you can use the standard SHIFT + click and CTRL + click mouse functionality.
The plugins that are added to the category appear as rows in the Selected Plugins table.
If you decide not to include a plugin that has been added to a category, you can remove it from the Selected Plugins table before saving the category. Select the plugin and click the remove icon to remove it from the Selected Plugins table. Clicking Remove All removes all plugins from the Selected Plugins table.
The View drop-down list on the Available Plugins table allows you to manage which plugins display in the Available Plugins table. For information on changing what is displayed in the Available Plugins table, see Using the Plugin View List.
4. Click OK to create the custom category.
Use the following steps to delete one or more custom categories:
1. From the System Configuration Collector Categories table, select the check boxes at the beginning of the rows containing the categories you want to delete.
2. Select the delete selected categories icon located at the top of the table.
A confirmation window opens.
3. To confirm the deletion, click OK; otherwise, click Cancel.
After clicking OK, a window displays the results of the deletion action:
If no custom categories were selected, the message indicates that no categories were deleted.
If only custom categories were selected, the message indicates that the selected custom categories were deleted.
If both custom and out-of-the-box Windchill categories were selected, the message indicates that the custom categories were deleted and the Windchill categories were not deleted.
4. Click OK to close the window.
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