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Re: Deleting Data Elements do not work

 

Hi Calle,

assuming your are using Chrome. This is a browser feature. The option is
"Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs" to prevent misbehaving
web sites. It it enough to close the browser and open it again.

Lars


On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Olav Poppe <olav.poppe@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> regarding the popup, I think that is a browser (Chrome and possibly
> others) feature - if there are multiple similar(?) popups, it will ask you
> if you want to ignore all. I though this was only a one-time thing and that
> they would not disappear permanently, but not sure about this.
>
> Olav
>
>
> 4. des. 2015 kl. 06.21 skrev Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> >:
>
> Hi Calle,
>
> This is the important part "the data element cannot be deleted because
> it's linked to this or that object."
>
> The deletion handler cannot delete data elements if the data element is
> linked to certain objects which is cannot handle deleting, like if the data
> element is linked to data. The data would need to be deleted, followed by
> the data element.
>
> Also, I am not really sure about the popup. There is nothing which I can
> see which can turn this off. Are you sure this is not some sort of popup
> blocker on your browser?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've been deleting a number of data elements using the normal user
>> interface - since the confirmation popup every time was a bit annoying, I
>> clicked the "do not show this again" (or whatever the popup tick-box was
>> called).
>>
>> The confirmation popup has disappeared - and I cannot see any reference
>> in the user manual to how to get it back - but more importantly the
>> deleting no longer works. No messages, no "deleting....", not even any
>> error messages that the data element cannot be deleted because it's linked
>> to this or that object.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>> How do I turn the confirmation popup back on, since it's seems to be
>> compulsory for it to work?
>>
>> Regards
>> Calle
>>
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