Deployment and delete
To ensure that you do not accidentally remove data that is required for a Interact runtime server to run correctly, deploying an interaction configuration locks Interact objects so you cannot delete them. After you deploy an interaction configuration, you cannot delete any interaction strategy tab, interactive flowchart, or interactive channel that is associated with the interaction configuration until you remove the object from all server groups.
If you mark an interaction strategy or an interactive flowchart to be removed, and then deploy the interactive channel to all server groups which contained the interaction strategy or interactive flowchart, you can delete the interaction strategy or interactive flowchart.
If you remove an interactive channel from all server groups to which you deployed the interactive channel, you can delete any of the interaction strategies, interactive flowcharts, or interactive channels.
For example, you have interactive channel A which contains interactive flowchart A and interaction strategy A. You deploy interactive channel A to the server group Test and the server group Production. You realize that interactive flowchart A is inadequate, so you make interactive flowchart B. You mark interactive flowchart A to be removed, and mark interactive flowchart B for deployment. You deploy the flowchart to server group Test. You cannot delete interactive flowchart A because it is still deployed to server group Production. After you deploy to server group Production, you can delete interactive flowchart A. Over time, you realize you must restructure your interaction configuration. You create interactive channel B, interaction strategy B, and interactive flowchart C. You deploy this interaction configuration to server group Test and server group Production. You also remove interactive channel A, interaction strategy A, and interactive flowchart B from server group Production. You cannot delete any objects because all objects are deployed somewhere. After you remove interactive channel A, interaction strategy A, and interactive flowchart B from server group Test, you can delete interactive channel A, interaction strategy A, and interactive flowchart B.