Delete notification

What is this?

With Delete notification you remove a notification permanently from your choir. Unlike archiving, the notification is not just hidden — it disappears completely: for all members, along with all comments, reactions, poll votes and attachments.

This is the right choice when:

• You composed the notification by mistake and nobody has seen it intensively yet
• Wrong information was spread that should no longer be in the choir
• Sensitive data was accidentally included
• A notification violates association rules — such as offensive content

In all other cases archiving is the better choice because the history stays preserved.

How to delete a notification

1. Open the notification through the notifications overview.
2. Click the three-dot menu at the top right of the detail view.
3. Choose "Delete" in the menu.
4. Confirm the safety prompt — Chorilo explicitly asks because the action cannot be undone.
5. The notification disappears immediately from all overviews and archives.

What happens during deletion

Deletion removes several pieces of data irrevocably:

• Notification text and all edit versions
• All comments by other members
• All reactions and their listings
• Poll and all submitted votes
• All attachments — the files are removed from the server
• Read status and read history

In the members'' overview the notification disappears silently — there is no push notification about the deletion.

Permission

You need the Create & edit notifications permission to delete notifications. You can always delete your own notifications regardless of this permission. Other people''s notifications you may delete if your role has corresponding rights — typically choir directors and board.

Tips

• When in doubt, archive instead of delete — you can view archived notifications any time.
• For sensitive data also consider whether data is cached locally on members'' devices — at the next sync it is gone, but not immediately.
• Write a hint as a new notification before deleting if the information was wrong — otherwise members are confused why a notification has disappeared.
• Use Edit instead of Delete + Recreate when you only need small corrections — comments and discussion stay intact.