delete webpart(s) definitely

Hello Everybody!

When we delete a wepart (e.g. a document libary with files) it's not deleted
definitely.
You can search for it and put it into any site at anytime after deleting it.

So the webpart and the files are stored in the database at last.
That would blow up our database unessential.

Is there any way to delete webpart(s) definitely?

Best regards

Thomas

c
Tue Jun 07 10:55:02 CDT 2005

The only way to permanently delete web parts from your system is to use STSADM.

STSADM -o deletewppack -name <WebPart2BeDeleted>

Hope this helps.

Thanks
C



"Thomas" wrote:

> Hello Everybody!
>
> When we delete a wepart (e.g. a document libary with files) it's not deleted
> definitely.
> You can search for it and put it into any site at anytime after deleting it.
>
> So the webpart and the files are stored in the database at last.
> That would blow up our database unessential.
>
> Is there any way to delete webpart(s) definitely?
>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas

David
Wed Jun 08 08:35:26 CDT 2005

Hi,
Corne's answer, while absolutely correct, may not have answered the question
you meant to ask.
When you delete a document library, it is removed from the team site
gallery.
AFAIK, as long as the document library (or any list) exists on the team
site, it is available in the team site gallery.

Our users have considerable difficulty differentiating between a list and a
web part.
I have found the list/view/web part differentiation one of the most
difficult (and important) concepts to communicate.

More information is in the Administrators Guide under (oddly enough)
Managing Web Part Availability


"Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Everybody!
>
> When we delete a wepart (e.g. a document libary with files) it's not
deleted
> definitely.
> You can search for it and put it into any site at anytime after deleting
it.
>
> So the webpart and the files are stored in the database at last.
> That would blow up our database unessential.
>
> Is there any way to delete webpart(s) definitely?
>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas

SimonT
Thu Jun 09 12:26:02 CDT 2005

Hi Thomas

If I am understanding your question correctly, you are referring to deleting
a web part (that is linked to a document library). After deleing the web part
the documents in the libray are still searchable.

You can think of the web part as a "view" of the document library (that can
exist on any page in the site the libray belongs to). Deleting the view does
not do anything to the library. If you wanted to completely delete the
document library and all of it's contents you need to delete it under "Modify
settings and columns" in the library itself and selecting delete this
document libray. This also removes the web part from the available web parts
for the site.

Hope this helps

"Thomas" wrote:

> Hello Everybody!
>
> When we delete a wepart (e.g. a document libary with files) it's not deleted
> definitely.
> You can search for it and put it into any site at anytime after deleting it.
>
> So the webpart and the files are stored in the database at last.
> That would blow up our database unessential.
>
> Is there any way to delete webpart(s) definitely?
>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas