Delete and Automatic Reparenting

How deletion works

When you delete an item from the strategy map, two things happen:

The item itself is moved to Trash (soft delete -- can be restored).

Its children are reparented to the deleted item's parent.

Example

Before:

Objective (OBJ-1)
  └── Opportunity (OPP-5)
        ├── Solution (SOL-8)
        └── Solution (SOL-9)
              └── Experiment (EXP-12)

Delete OPP-5:

Objective (OBJ-1)
  ├── Solution (SOL-8)
  └── Solution (SOL-9)
        └── Experiment (EXP-12)

Solutions and the experiment are now direct children of the Objective. No data is lost.

Deep reparenting

The reparent works at all depths. If you delete a Solution that has Experiments underneath, those Experiments connect to the Solution's parent (Opportunity or Objective).

The entire ancestor chain is updated on all descendants -- not just direct children, but grandchildren and beyond.

What about linked work items?

When deleting a Solution, any linked Epics and Features have their solutionId cleared (set to 0). They become independent backlog items but are not deleted.

How deletion works#

Example#

Deep reparenting#

What about linked work items?#

How deletion works

Example

Deep reparenting

What about linked work items?