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stevegorman77
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September 24, 2026
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Prevent Published Pages/Assets from being deleted from author

  • September 24, 2026
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I wanted to suggest a idea.    If a page or Asset is published, the users should not be able to delete the item from the Author.  The Author should have logic to let the user know the item is published and cannot be deleted until it is unpublished.

We are having this issue with our Users deleting items from author and then they have to restore it from trash, and unpublish the asset.   this creates a lot of work and time to do so hoping a proactive alert box can be setup to notify the user that the item is published and cannot be deleted from author. 

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    shrutid56001193
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    shrutid56001193User Group Leader
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    September 25, 2026

    ​@stevegorman77 , Good suggestion. 

    AEM already has part of this built in. When you delete an item that's referenced or activated, you get the "Force Delete" warning first (the "one or more item(s) has local references and/or activated" dialog), so there's a heads-up before deletion.

    More importantly: confirming delete on a published item is meant to deactivate it (pull it off publish) and then delete on author. I just tested this on our AEMaaCS and the asset was correctly removed from both — no orphan left behind. So if you have to restore from trash and clean up publish separately, that auto-deactivate isn't firing in your setup, and that's something worth checking - may be a blocked replication queue.

    Are you on AEMaaCS or on-prem/AMS? The delete-and-deactivate path differs between them.

    And you actually want is a hard stop?  block deleting published items entirely rather than just warn?  

    that would be a small customization and happy to share an approach.

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