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6. ICA-AtoM prompts you to confirm the delete request; click "OK".
 
6. ICA-AtoM prompts you to confirm the delete request; click "OK".
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*Note that deleting a [[term]] from a [[taxonomy]] will delete the [[term]] from associated [[archival description|archival descriptions]], [[authority record|authority records]] and [[archival institution|archival institutions]].
  
  
 
7. ICA-AtoM deletes the record and returns you to the [[list screen]].
 
7. ICA-AtoM deletes the record and returns you to the [[list screen]].
 
 
8. Note that you '''cannot delete a [[term]] that has been used as a value in another record'''. Attempting to do so will generate an [[error message]].
 
 
*E.g. you try to delete "sub-fonds" from the ''levels of description'' [[taxonomy]], but you get an [[error message]]; this means that one or more [[Archival description|archival descriptions]] has "sub-fonds" as the value in the ''level of description'' [[field]].
 

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Delete an existing term from a taxonomy

Main Page > User manual > UM-3 Add / edit content > UM-3.5 Edit taxonomies (terms) > UM-3.5.3 Delete an existing term from a taxonomy

Open a taxonomy and click the term to delete
Delete the term


1. Click the add/edit > term tab on the main menu bar.


2. ICA-AtoM takes you to the taxonomy terms list screen showing all existing taxonomies.


3. Click the taxonomy you want to edit to expand it and view the terms associated with it.


4. Click the term you want to delete from the taxonomy (locked terms cannot be deleted).


5. ICA-AtoM displays the term in edit mode. Click the delete button.


6. ICA-AtoM prompts you to confirm the delete request; click "OK".


7. ICA-AtoM deletes the record and returns you to the list screen.