Documents sent to the bin are marked for permanent deletion. The bin is emptied at a random time every Sunday, and will remove any items that have a modifiedOn date of over 30 days old.

Documents added to the bin DO NOT have their associations with other records removed, and can be restored by simply clicking the 'Restore' button with the record itself.

Figure 293. The "Deleted" switch for this document is on. Turn it off and save to recover the document.

Figure 293. The "Deleted" switch for this document is on. Turn it off and save to recover the document.

Get notified about documents pending deletion

You can be notified of which documents are marked for deletion the following Sunday by enabling the Documents for Deletion script. This will send out an email (called 'Documents for deletion') that contains the file names of each document due to be deleted. Each document will be hyperlinked back to the document record in onCourse so you can easily restore it if you wish.