Delete projects
Remove one project or a whole selection from your dashboard, and what to settle before you do.
Deleting a project removes it from your dashboard along with its participants, interviews, transcripts, and share links. Every delete asks you to retype something exactly, so a stray click cannot remove a study that is still running.
Delete one project
- Open the project's menu
On the projects list, hover the row and click the ... menu at the end of it.
- Choose Delete
The confirmation dialog lists what deleting affects.
- Retype the project name
Type the project's name exactly as it appears on the row. The red Delete button stays greyed out until it matches, so you can always back out by closing the dialog.
Delete several projects at once
- Select the projects
Tick the checkbox on each row you want to remove. A bar appears at the bottom of the list showing how many are selected.
- Choose Delete
Open the ... menu on that bar and choose Delete. You can also use the ... menu on any selected row, which acts on the whole selection.
- Retype the confirmation phrase
Typing every name would be impractical, so a multi-project delete asks for the phrase Delete N projects instead, where N is the number selected. Deleting twelve projects asks you to type
Delete 12 projects.
The phrase states the count, so if the number in it is larger than you expected, your selection is bigger than you meant it to be. Close the dialog and check the selection before continuing.
To clear a selection without deleting anything, press Escape, click the X on the selection bar, or click an empty part of the page.
What deleting does
- The project disappears from your dashboard, from search, and from every filter and workspace it belonged to.
- Strella deletes its interviews, transcripts, and questionnaires too.
- Its share links stop working. Anyone who opens one cannot join.
- Teammates in your organization lose access to it at the same time you do.
Deleting does not close an open Recruitment Order or settle participant incentives. If the project is still recruiting, close the order and pay out anything outstanding first. Otherwise recruitment keeps running against a project you can no longer see.
Getting a project back
There is no undo button, and a deleted project cannot be restored from the dashboard. It is hidden rather than erased, so contact support if you delete something you need back, and the sooner the better.
Strella handles permanent erasure as a separate, deliberate process for data-removal requests. It is not what the Delete button does.
Alternatives to deleting
If you want a finished study out of the way but intend to keep its recordings and transcripts, archive it instead. Archiving hides a project from your working lists while keeping everything in it, and you can unarchive it later from the workspace's Archive view. See Teammates, organizations & workspaces for how workspaces and archiving fit together.