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URL:
https://dataaccess/notebookworkspace/deleteFile
Methods:
POST
Version Introduced:
11.5

Access requirements

Required privileges

The Enterprise Administrator API requires privilege-based access. An administrator must be assigned a specific user privilege, or role, to access any given endpoint. Listed below are the user privileges or roles an administrator can be assigned that provides access to this endpoint. If multiple privileges are listed, only one needs to be assigned to gain access.



To access notebook-related endpoints, administrators must be assigned a custom role that includes any of the privileges listed above as well as the Create and edit notebooks privilege.

Tokens

This API requires token-based authentication. A token is automatically generated for administrators who sign in to the Enterprise Administrator API directory's HTML interface. Tokens generated in this way are stored for the entirety of the session.

Those accessing the API directory outside of the HTML interface will need to acquire a session token from the generateToken operation in the Enterprise Directory API. For security reasons, all POST requests made to the Enterprise Administrator API must include a token in the request body.


Learn how to generate a token

Description

The deleteFile operation allows a user to permanently remove a file from their notebook workspace directory (/arcgis/home). Only the owner of the file is allowed to perform this operation.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

fileName

(Required)

The name of the file to be deleted.

Example
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//Delete a file from the root directory
fileName=mjwaterzip

//Delete a file from a subdirectory
fileName=hydrology/mjwaterzip

//Delete a file from a nested subdirectory
fileName=hydrology/2020/mjwaterzip

f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the deleteFile operation that demonstrates deleting a file from a subdirectory:

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POST /<context>/notebooks/admin/dataaccess/notebookworkspace/deleteFile HTTP/1.1
Host: organization.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-fprm-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

fileName=hydrology/mjwater.zip&f=pjson&token=PuuxoDV8HzHD1GxXUDpgHDeItErtl9Wr6rbULdhXHVUnGsjZ2hI1j1cPmnDEN1UnUfDqrNr2AuviTe5OkBumXsPlwSCrKw_ZVM1vczv2ziRESyz2PEAAhfsf71EyKIEGe7wW1z7hN_aLIjTekcdUbs-xtUAMZjEKHDRxT85NlfWqQghOy6o5XE54P8nnmdhllY6IfdtqeRtOYfFLoCBGCmOFV8diNVk4CxW3MMnzelDAGuRpN-Bru-vcYTY-7Or9

JSON Response syntax

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{"status": "<success | failure>"}

JSON Response example

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{"status": "success"}

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