You can delete a record type or family in a schema.
Before you delete a record type or family consider the impact to existing
schemas, states, actions, hooks, and queries. For information see
Naming restrictions.
You cannot delete the following record types:
- Stateless system record types: ratl_replicas, history, attachments,
groups, and users.
- Record types added by read-only packages. For more information,
see Applying
package upgrades.
- Default record type. If you want to delete the current default
record type, you must first assign another record type to be the default.
To delete a record type or family:
- Start the Designer.
- Click .
- Select the class of the record type to delete: State, Stateless,
or Family.
- Select the record type or family from the Record
Type list.
Deleting a record type affects links to existing
child records and references to the deleted record type name in hooks, scripts,
and queries. All elements associated with the deleted record type must be
updated.