Deleting promotions and subfolders from a folder
You can improve the organization of your store promotions by deleting promotions or subfolders from parent folders.
Beginning with Feature Pack 6, you can use Management Center to
delete promotions or subfolders from a parent folder.
You can use Management Center to
delete only promotions from parent folders. To delete a subfolder
from a parent folder, a Site Administrator must use SQL statements.
For more information, see Deleting promotion folders.
Before you begin
Before you delete a folder, you must delete or move any subfolders in the folder. You can have a developer configure your folders so that you can delete a folder that has subfolders. Then, when you delete a folder, you also delete the subfolders and any objects within both the folder and any subfolders. Only the references to the objects are deleted. The objects continue to exist in your system, and in any other folder the object is included within. For more information about this configuration option, see Configuration properties in the infrastructure component.
If you can delete folders with subfolders and
you are working in an asset store, do not delete folders that might
contain a subfolder that belongs to an extended site store. If you are using extended sites,
ensure that you understand how folders work in extended sites. For
more information, see Folders in extended sites.
About this task
An administrator can enable the
Promotions tool to not display promotions that are in a folder in
the main Promotions - List view. When this configuration
is enabled, promotions that are in a folder do not display in the
list of promotions for your store. When you remove a promotion from
a folder and the promotion is not in any other folders, the promotion
can display in the main Promotions - List again.
When you delete the folder, the promotions that were in that folder
and are not in any other folders can display in the main Promotions
- List again. For more information, see Organizing promotions with folders.
Procedure
- In the explorer view, expand:
- Promotion Folders
- Promotions
Locate and select the folder that contains the subfolder or promotion that you want to delete. The contents of the folder displays in the main work area.Tip: You can view a list of promotions or a list of folders within the folder or directory. Click the
Show Promotions
List or 
Show Promotion
Folders List. - Right-click the promotion or folder that you want to delete;
click Delete.
- Delete or remove the promotion.
A dialog displays. Choose an option:- Delete
- The promotion is deleted from the folder and from your system.
- Remove
- The reference to the promotion is deleted from the folder. The promotion is not deleted.
- The reference to the promotion is deleted
from the folder. The promotion continues to exist in the promotions
list and in any other folders that include the promotion.
- Delete a folder - If you delete a folder, you delete the folder from your system. If the folder contained promotions, the promotions are deleted from the folder. The promotions continue to exist in your system and in any other folders that include the promotions.
You can also
delete a subfolder from a parent folder within the properties view
of the subfolder by removing the folder entry in the Parent Folder
table. Removing this entry makes the subfolder a top-level folder. - Delete or remove the promotion.