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Deleting a project removes it from IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server Administration and Interviewer Server Administration's distributed property management system (DPM). You can also delete the project's files and its case data, sample management and quota databases.
Note: The Firefox browser does not support project deletion. Contact your IBM® SPSS® Data Collection administrator to find out how to do this.
If the project uses sample management, the sample management object is also deleted. If you have projects that share sample management objects, you should ask your Interviewer Server Administration administrator to change this behavior so that deleting a project does not delete the sample management object.
It is recommended that projects to be deleted are in the Inactive state. If you try to delete a project that is not in this state, the deletion procedure will ask whether you want to change the project's state before deleting it.
When you activate a project, the activation process creates a project folder in the Projects subfolder of the IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server installation folder, and places a copy of the project's .mdd file in this folder. This folder exists on every machine running the interviewing server and is updated automatically by the activation process. For example, if you activate the tea project every interviewing server will contain the file [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\6\Interviewer Server\Projects\tea\tea.mdd. These folders and files are not deleted when you delete a project in Interviewer Server Administration, but you may delete them manually afterwards.
If your company uses a hierarchical project list, deleting the last project from a folder automatically deletes the folder too. If you delete the last project and the folder is not deleted, this is because the folder contains other projects that are invisible to you because you do not have permission to use them.
Deleting a project
► Select the project in the Interviewer Server Administration project list.
► Click the Delete icon.
► If the project is not Inactive, Interviewer Server Administration displays a reminder that this is recommended and asks whether you want to change the project's status now. Click Yes to change the status and then delete the project, No to leave the project's state as it is and then delete the project, or Cancel to cancel the deletion request.
► Next, you are asked whether you want to delete the case data and other files associated with the project. The default is to delete the project from Interviewer Server Administration and DPM but not to delete any files. To delete the case data, sample management, and quota files, select Delete will remove existing files and the case data database. If you do not want to delete sample management or quota files, cancel the check boxes that this option has selected for you. Click Continue. If you have any doubts about deleting the project, click Cancel as this is your last opportunity to cancel the deletion request.
Note: Project names are unique to each customer account. After deleting a project, other users will not be able to create a new project, with the same name as the deleted project, unless they are assigned to the same customer account in which the deleted project was created.
Interviewer Server Administration processes your deletion request and displays a message box when the project has been deleted.
► Click Close to close the message box.