Delete a publishing profile

After you create a publishing profile, if you no longer need to publish a component with those specific settings, you can delete the profile. Deleting the profile doesn't remove any components from Inspire, it only removes the collection of settings in the profile.

Before you begin

Use caution when deleting a profile as this action can't be undone.
If you delete a publishing profile that contains a schedule for printing, that schedule is also deleted.
In your role permissions, you must have module access to Publishing to complete work with publishing profiles.

Tips and tricks

After a component is added to a publishing profile, Inspire remembers that it is being used. If a user tries to delete the component, they see the following message:

Cannot delete components because one or more are used in a publishing profile. Clear all publishing profile references to these components or remove them from your selection and try again.

Users also see this warning if they try to delete a folder that contains a component included in a publishing profile.

The user sees this warning and can't delete the component(s).

If a user wants to delete the component, they can do one of the following:

Update a publishing profile and remove this component
Delete a publishing profile that includes this component

To delete a publishing profile:

From the top menu, select Publishing.
On the Publishing Profiles tab, find the profile you want to update.
To delete the profile, do any of the following:
- Right-click the name of the profile, and select Delete.
- In the profile's row, click the Options menu, and then select Delete.
On the Delete Publishing Profiles confirmation, click Yes.

Results:
- On the Publishing Profiles tab, you see the profile is no longer in the list.
- The relationship is broken between the profile and the component(s) it contained. A user can now delete those components without seeing a warning.