Possible loss of data!
Use caution when purging assets from the DAMS.
Purging or permanently deleting assets removes all files and database records associated with an asset from the DAMS. It cannot be undone.
Per DAMS Operations Policy, assets in the DAMS are intended to be retained permanently.
Assets should be deleted ("purged") from the system only if technical reasons make it necessary to re-ingest assets, rather than updating existing assets, or if retaining the content would constitute a liability risk to the libraries.
There are two options for purging assets:
- Provide a list of comma-separated PIDS (no spaces)
- Provide one PID of a parent object to recursively delete all child PIDS
Users should choose option 2 to purge a collection and all the assets in that collection, or to purge a publication, book, or issue, and all the child issues or pages. See more details for purging paged content.
Note: If an asset is published, then users will not be able to purge the object until the asset is unpublished successfully.