Deleting Dashboards where no user has edit access

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This docs article shows how to delete dashboards, but only if the user has access.

https://docs.dataminer.services/dataminer/Functions/Dashboards_and_Low_Code_Apps/Dashboards_app/Creating_and_configuring_dashboards/Deleting_a_dashboard.html

We have a number of redudnant dashboards where we have no idea who the editor is, but need to delete.

How can we delete old dashboards where nobody has edit access?

example where there is no edit or delete right click option.

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Hi Sam,

If you have access to the system itself, you can remove the dashboards from C:/Skyline DataMiner/dashboards. Note that this has some caching, so you might have to reload the webpage or restart IIS to see the effect.

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Sam Stump [DevOps Advocate] commented

Thanks Wout,
On a DMS with 8 dma failover pairs, which dma would I logon to delete from the server?
Wout Mahieu [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented

You will have to do the manual edits on all DMAs
Sam Stump [DevOps Advocate] commented

Can confirm this was successful deleting the dashboard files from our 16 dma servers.

I have submitted a pull request to update dataminer docs for this scenario

https://github.com/SkylineCommunications/dataminer-docs/pull/6991

Didn't need to reload IIS / Web, when I accessed dashboards after deleting from all dma, the orphaned dashboards were gone.
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