Delete and clean up loose objects

While working with Quadri for Windows, you can get "Loose objects" (also called "Orphan objects" or "Non-result objects"). These are objects that do not belong to any tasks. This is the result of modules not working properly or sometimes also user choices. We are working on removing these errors.

The result of loose objects in the workset, is tangled with other problems and can together make it difficult to reserve or run tasks.

Here is an attempt to describe what a user can do to clean up projects where there are loose objects. It looks complicated, but is actually just a series of rather easy steps.

Round 1: trying the simple way

First step:

Second step:

If the reservation fails, try to reserve only some of these tasks (or one by one, if that is necessary). If you can not reserve a task that is select by it's own, look at the error message: if it is because of another reservation, try to get the person holding that reservation to release it and try again when that is done.

Now try to delete the tasks you could reserve. Always answer "Yes" to any question about wanting to delete the result features and if you want to delete even though there are features that will "loose their netelement association".

If you succeeded in deleting some tasks, but not others, you might try a new round. Sometimes deleting one "Loose objects" task makes it possible to delete another.

If you get an error about "associated objects", see: Operation failed , under "While sharing".

After you can not delete any more such tasks, save and share what you have done so far, but do not check "Release".

Round 2: more advanced cleanup

First step: try to reserve again

Round 3: undeletable tasks with loose objects

If you still have tasks with "Loose objects" you can not delete, but can reserve, see: Can not delete task with loose objects

Round 4: repeating the operations

If anything was successfully deleted in step 1-3: