Delete a Document and its Versions

Remove a document or a version you do not want or need anymore.

Deleting a document immediately and permanently removes it from the library and deletes all its versions. You can also choose to delete only specific versions while keeping the rest of the document.

Delete document and delete version actions cannot be undone. In all cases, you have the option to keep the underlying Confluence pages.

What Gets Deleted?

Scroll Documents gives you flexibility when it comes to deletion:

• Delete the entire document (including page trees): This removes all traces of the Scroll Document.

  • All document metadata.

  • All pages with their versions, variants, and translations.

• Delete only the Scroll Document (keep page trees): This action removes the Scroll Document along with its metadata, while keeping the versioned or translated page trees that you may wish to keep for future use.

  • The Scroll Document is completely removed from all screens, including the Document Library.

  • The Scroll Document isn’t recognized as a document in Confluence anymore.

When you delete only the Scroll Document, the associated pages remain as regular Confluence pages, but without the versioning, translation, or variant management.

Delete a Document

In this section you’ll learn how to delete a document.

Before deleting a version and/or its versions, please make sure that you have the right permissions

First, you need to navigate to the Document Manager:

1. Click Scroll Documents from the Apps section in your space sidebar.

2. From the Document Library, click the document card of a document.

Or

1. From a page in a document, click Document toolbox.

2. Click on the cog icon.

Now, in order to delete a document follow the steps below:

1. Click More document actions (•••) > select Delete.

2. For each version, select whether you want to delete only the document metadata (only Delete from Library is checked) or the document metadata and its associated Confluence pages (Delete from Library and Delete Page Tree are checked).

3. Click Next.
4. Review what will be deleted.

5. Click Delete.

Delete a Version

In this section you’ll learn how to delete a document version.

Before you can start, you need to navigate to the Document Manager

1. Click Scroll Documents from the Apps section in your space sidebar.

2. From the Document Library, click the document card of a document.

Or

1. From a page in a document, click Document toolbox.

2. Click on the cog icon.

To delete a version, follow the steps below:

1. For the version you want to update, click More page tree actions (•••) > select Delete.

2. Select whether you want to delete only the version metadata (only Delete from Library is checked) or the version metadata and its associated pages (Delete from Library and Delete Page Tree are checked).
3. Click Next.
4. Review what will be deleted.
5. Click Remove.