How to delete a Project in the Autodesk Construction Cloud

[MichaelRuehr]

I know how to archive/delete a project in BIM360 Next-Gen 

but how do I do int with Projects starter in the Next-Next-Gen ACC

there seems to be no help file or special forum 

[samuel-ssarco]

BUMP. @martyn_messerli 

Any updates on this? This discussion was 20 months ago and I have all the same questions (how do I delete a project, how do I archive a project if this is the only wordaround, why don't I have the 3 dots, etc?).

Interestingly, the dots appear and I'm able to archive when navigating to portal through https://acc.autodesk.com/projects.... but not when using admin.b360.autodesk.com. Wasn't able to find a place to delete in either.

Should I be using acc version? What's the difference? I typically go through admin.b360...

[Evan.Pond]

I can archive but I want DELETE! I have a couple of 'test1' etc. jobs from early setup and would rather not look at them when reviewing real archived jobs.

[gareth.spencer1]

Hi @Evan.Pond,

You cannot delete projects currently in ACC. You only way around not seeing projects with the name 'test1' is to rename them before deleting so they list in order. Maybe name them Z1#### or 9### as an example.

[diacreek]

Thanks to browse Autodesk post. Otherwise, I'm going to spend another hours to figure out.

By the way, if the projects have been moved to Archive, it will be automatically removed from the system in days, Right?

[nolangene]

"if the projects have been moved to Archive, it will be automatically removed from the system in days, Right" Any project Archived remains on the system indefinitely as far as I know. It is not removed. Just stays in Archive.

[samuel-ssarco]

"Any request by our customers for basic functionality of the cloud platform (including, but not limited to the ability to 'delete' a project) will be ignored indefinitely. We are busy working on other things -- please discuss amongst yourselves."  <3<3 Autodesk

[MattDillon247]

That's a bit extreme I think. In all fairness, consider what would happen if a customer archived a project, and then, let's say after 90 days, it was removed from the system. Then the customer decides 6 months later that they need access to those files that they forgot or neglected to archive on their local server. Whoops... they're gone. 

Trust me - there are customers out there that would immediately be threatening lawsuits over that, no matter how many disclaimers and warnings they've gotten from Autodesk that their archived project was about to be deleted. How many emails from Autodesk go ignored?

When a project is archived, it can not be viewed by anyone that's not an account admin. It cannot be restored unless by an account admin. For all intents and purposes, it IS gone. Until it's needed for some reason. 

Since there's no limit to how much storage is used, I don't see the problem. If you're worried about someone at Autodesk accessing your files, then you probably shouldn't be using ACC at all - or at the very least, download the files from your project and delete them when you are ready to kill it off.

[nolangene]

I agree why make that statement. Unnecessary!

Further on the subject of Archived files being deleted. It would have to be a very clear written policy or lawsuits would be all over the place on it. There is a legal requirement for licensed professionals to keep a project accessible for a period of usually years. Differs State by State and profession. So not really sure why this keeps coming up. In my view it is a good thing Archive and forget until you need it! Seeing test projects in an Archival folder should not be that big of an issue really. How often would you be in this folder except to reinstate a project. LOL lets all relax here a little that would be a good idea.

[samuel-ssarco]

[SteveDFThorne]

If deleting will never be an option it would be nice to have a "void" category/option in addition to "Archive" . The reason for this would be to automatically remove "junk" projects from the power bi data connector data set as well as the Construction IQ Module.

[Bassam.Kassoumeh]

Hello,

and now how does it look; can we delete the Projects?

thanks

[ddriver]

I certainly cannot see a way to do this as of 230724.
If they cannot give us the ability to delete, they should at least give us the ability to create either a sandbox site to develop templates, do in house training etc.
or create a project type (there already is a "Sample> Training Project") let us at least delete those? 
BIM 360 Help | View Administrator Activity | Autodesk

Recorded administrative activities include:

• Creating, editing, or deleting a project

well... either I or Autodesk is certainly missing something here

[Shafeer_AboobackerXVAWK]

Only Account Admin Can Archive the project, 

[dsinghFP9F8]

Dots are gone. So are we getting this very basic management feature? or should we start budgeting a plug in to solve it?

[asWAPL9]

i think it was an answer generated by chat gpt or something and he just pasted it. there is no option to delete a project, you can only archive them.

[samuel-ssarco]

We are definitely not getting a "delete" feature. Maybe Autodesk should sell it as an add-on subscription format?? Then it might get prioritized. I have a lot of good ideas.

This person claims to have a workaround -- I haven't tried it yet.
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bim-360-support/deleting-bim360-projects/td-p/12534486

[ddriver]

You made me laugh... Autodesk the only $1.7 billion company I know that charges it's clients to develop useful functionality! But I guess that is how they got to be a 1.7 billion dollar company eh?
Read the workaround, noted. Probably an OK workaround for projects where people where just testing... as long as they were created with the ACC template with all permissions in place, or if the company is not using ACC project templates at all.
I have started repurposing mine to 'onboarding and training projects'... one for cloud shared coordinates, another for Publish Package Share, Consume.... etc. However I can only use so many of them. Still looking for the delete project button

[jay_clancy]

This is legitimately ridiculous...

[mshowalter44XE3]

Almost 5 years later.....  Has this feature been added yet?  My project browser is a mess with old projects that I do not want to have to browse through.

[asWAPL9]

No.