Deleting or removing obsolete Trends, Alerts, Users & Projects

In this article:

• About pruning and deleting
• Deleting fruitless Trends.
• Deleting annoying Alerts.
• Deleting redundant Users.

Plus — Deleting Projects

• Deleting Projects that are past it.

Suggested next article: Plans & Billing

About pruning and deleting

In this section we’ll show you how to delete old, sad, tired, and unused features that can plunge you over some plan limits and complicate your account unnecessarily. Follow along as we show you how to prune Alerts, Projects, Trends, and users.

Your use of features is tracked automatically by in the Plans & Billing section under your account settings. If you go over your plan's quotas, warnings signs will appear. Actually, it’s more than a warning. You'll run into stop signs. At that point, you’ll can make any one of three possible decisions: 

• Do a little weeding out. There are, very likely, obsolete Trends, Users, Projects, Reminders, Alerts, etc., that can be pruned. Deleting obsolete instances of a custom feature and add a new ones in their place is always a cost-effective play 
• Stand pat and keep things where they currently are 
• Decide to upgrade. (See Changing your plan in the next section)

Examples of how stop signs work

If you attempt to add an 6th Project when your plan only allows 5, you’ll get a stop sign telling you to upgrade if you want to add more projects.

Try to sail past your Trends limit and you’ll see two warnings! In other words, Delighted will let you clearly know that you have hit a stop sign and you’ll need to either upgrade, keep your Trends the way they are, or prune a few unused trends.

Look at our list of Trends. Some have never hit with customers. Perhaps 4 or 5 of them can just be deleted.

Deleting from your quota of custom features is a snap. Generally, you’ll find the specific feature you want to delta, click its Gear icon and then choose Edit followed by Delete. 

Rather than show you how to delete every feature, we’ll use Trends, Alerts, Projects, and Users as examples. Each is slightly different, but if you learn how to delete these four, the others will follow along in a familiar way.

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Deleting fruitless Trends

To prune old trends and to make room for new, more effective Trends:

1. Click Trends from the main Delighted bar. 
2. Click the name of the Trend you want to delete. 
3. When the Trend specific page appears, click the Gear icon next to its name.
4. In the Edit trend window, click Delete this trend.
5. If you are sure, click OK in the subsequent pop-up box.
6. You will be returned to the Trends page.

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Deleting annoying Alerts

To delete unused, ineffective, or annoying Alerts: 

1. Click Integrations followed by Set Up in the Alerts tile.
2. Click the X next to the Alert you wish to delete.
3. After the Alert you wish to delete disappears, click Save Changes.

🎶 If you forget to click Save changes, and then exit to another tab, the alert will not be deleted. In a sense, Escaping out without saving is like hitting Cancel.

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Deleting redundant Users

To track and delete inoperative users:

1. Click Users from the Account menu.
2. Click Remove next to the user you wish to delete.
3. If you are sure, click OK in the subsequent pop-up box.

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Deleting projects that are past it

To delete old and tired projects: 

1

Open the "Projects" menu and click the "Gear" icon next to the project you wish to delete

2

Choose "Delete this project" from the Edit Project window

3

After reviewing some severe warnings about the Perils of deleting an entire project, click "Delete this project" without a care in the world

Deleting a project is fairly drastic. Everything related to a deleted survey project goes away. Luckily, Delighted will give you one last chance to Undo the damage if you delete a project unintentionally. (Thank you, Delighted.) If you dismiss this final “Undo” option, project deletion is permanent.

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