Deleting record types or families

You can delete a record type or family in a schema.

Before you begin

Before you delete a record type or family consider the impact to existing schemas, states, actions, hooks, and queries. For information see Naming restrictions.

About this task

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:

Procedure

Start the Designer.
Click Edit > Delete Record Type/Family.
Select the class of the record type to delete: State, Stateless, or Family.
Select the record type or family from the Record Type list.

Results

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.