Remove a child library

You can remove a child library from a library if it is no longer required as a dependency.

To remove a child library from a library or product version, the parent of the library must be opened as the focus library in the Library Dependency Editor.

When you remove a child from a library, if this child library also has children, these children will also be removed.
Note: When you remove a library, it is not deleted. It is simply removed as a child of the library. If other libraries in the dependency graph are also using this child library, the child library will not be removed from these libraries.
  1. Identify the parent of the library that you want to change and open that parent as the focus library in the Library Dependency Editor.
  2. Right-click the parent library and click Lock.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Right-click the library version you want to remove and select Remove Libraries.
    • Right-click the arrow joining the libraries and select Remove Libraries.
    The library is removed.
  4. Right-click in the Library Dependency Editor and click Release all.

    If errors are found in the result, they are displayed in the Release All Libraries dialog box. These errors must be resolved before the version can be released. To assist in resolving the errors, you can click the following:

    • Save: to save the list of errors in a tab-separated (TSV) file.
    • Locate: to open the list of errors in the Search Results view.
    • Copy: to copy the name and ID of the selected version.
    • Show In Graph: to display a dependency graph of the results.
  5. If no errors are discovered, the Validation Graph opens and displays all the changes that will occur once the version is released. Click Next.
  6. In the Release dialog box, add a comment describing the change and click OK.