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Deleting Motivations in CAT

Deleting a Motivation​

In the Complianse Assessment Tool (CAT) platform, deleting a Motivation is a destructive operation that removes not only the Motivation itself, but all related context. This includes assigned principles, criteria, metrics, tests, and their relationships.

This action cannot be undone. Proceed with caution.

Conditions for Deleting a Motivation​

A Motivation can be deleted only if both of the following conditions are met:

  1. It is in an UNPUBLISHED status.
  2. No assessments have been created using this motivation.

If either condition fails, the delete operation will be rejected with an error.

Related Content That Will Be Deleted​

When you delete a Motivation, the following are also deleted:

  • All Motivation–Actor relations
  • Assigned Principles
  • Assigned Criteria
  • Assigned Metrics
  • Assigned Tests
  • All entity-to-entity relations

Shared registry elements (e.g., a Criterion used in another motivation) are not deleted.
Only elements exclusively linked to the deleted Motivation are removed.---

Example UI View​

Delete Motivation UI

The UI provides confirmation checks before proceeding with deletion.

Not Allowed if Published or Assessed​

If a Motivation is published, or if it has been used in at least one Assessment, deletion is not allowed.

API Endpoint​

ActionMethodEndpoint
Delete an unpublished Motivation with no assessmentsDELETE/v1/registry/motivations/{id}