12.05.02 How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Unique Plan

 There are two main ways Pages can be deleted from the Plan Organizer:

• You open the Plan Organizer and delete them, we cover that in the previous article (Deliberately Deleting Pages).
• You do something that causes them to be removed (deleted), there are four things you can do that cause a Page or Pages to be removed:
• You edit a Plan Set and delete a Plan that was the only Plan associated with a Page (a Page cannot be "blank"). (covered below)
• You delete a Plan Set that included the only Plan for one or more Pages (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Plan Set)
• You deactivate a Plan Set that included the only Plan for one or more Pages (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deactivating a Plan Set)
• After saving a Plan Set, you edit it an match a Plan to another Page/Sheet No. (How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted when Revision Matching after Saving a Plan Set)

We cover each of the ways that you can cause a Page to be removed in this and the articles linked above. We do not do this often, but we are starting this article with a Warning.

What is a Unique Plan?

For our example, we consider the project's Plan Organizer screenshot below.

As you can see, we have added three Plan Sets (Original, Addendum 1, and Addendum 2).

• The Original Set created Pages A1.20, A2.21, A2.22, and A2.23.
• The 2nd Set (Addendum 1) was an update to A1.20 so it did not create any additional Pages.
• The 3rd Set (Addendum 2), was an update to A2.21 and A2.23 and created Pages 000007 and A2.22b. A2.22b is really an update to Page 4 (A2.22), but the estimator made a mistake and did not match it correctly when he or she created the Plan Set, we touched on what happens when you revision match after saving a Plan Set in a previous article, but we cover it in more detail in the articles that follow.

There are a total of 6 Pages in our Plan Organizer, built from a total of 9 Plans.

In our example, there are three Pages with "Unique Plans" meaning there is only one Plan or drawing associated with the Page.

• Page 1 (Page/Sheet No. 000007) exists because it was created from a plan in Addendum 2 - it does not exist in Addendum 1 or the Original Set. Addendum 2 is the only Plan Set in which a plan exists for this Page
• Page 4 (Page/Sheet No. A2.22) exists because it was created from a plan in the Original Set. Again, the Original Set is the only Plan Set that contains a Plan associated with this Page. 
• Page 6 (Page/Sheet No. A2.22b) exists because it was not matched to Page 4 (Page/Sheet ;No. A2.22) when the Plan Set "Addendum 2" was added. It should be a Revision of Page/Sheet No. A2.22 but as it stands, it is a separate Page with a Unique Plan.
• All other Pages have at least 2 Plans associated with them. For example - Page 2 (Page/Sheet No. A1.20) - if we deleted Addendum 1, we would still have at least one Plan associated with that Page so deleting the Plan would not cause the Page to be removed.

What Happens When You Delete a Unique Plan

In the Plan Organizer, click the small  button to edit Plan Set "Rev2", which created Page 1, Page/Sheet No. 000007.

Select that Plan (Page/Sheet No. 000007) and click the  button in the toolbar.

Because deleting this Unique Plan (the only Plan that exists for Page/Sheet No. 000007) will remove the Page it created from the project, you are required to confirm the action.

If you proceed:

• The Page that was created by the Plan (Page 1 right now) will be removed from the project (which means removed from every bid in the project).
• Any takeoff or annotations you have drawn are deleted
• Any Named Views or Punch Items that exist on this Page are deleted (Punch List history and photos are deleted as well)
• All File Attachments on this Page are deleted

If you are sure you want to delete the Page created by this Plan, click Delete Pages.

Note

Even after confirming this action, you have one last chance to change your mind. The Page(s) is not removed until you click Save in the Plan Organizer window.

When you click Save, the Page and everything on it is removed from this project. There is no recovering this Page or anything that was stored on it.

Final Warning

Anything that exists on Pages you remove, in any bid in the project, is deleted, irretrievably. If you are not absolutely sure that neither you nor any other user has used this Page, click Cancel.

• Return to the Projects and Bids List and see if there are any other bids in this project (other than yours), if there are, contact whoever created or is working on those bids to ensure that deleting the Page will not cause problems.
• If there are no other bids, open your bid and navigate to the Page that you are going to cause to be deleted. Make sure there is nothing on it. If there is, move it to another Page.
• Return to the Plan Organizer and proceed with deleting the Plan.

Deliberately Deleting Pages from the Plan Organizer

How You Might Cause Pages to be Deleted by Deleting a Plan Set