{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":49388,"path":"servicenow-platform/t_DeleteAMetricType.md","title":"Delete a metric type","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Delete a metric type\n\nDeleting a metric type entails deleting many related records.\n\n## Before you begin\n\nRole required: assessment\\_admin or admin\n\n## About this task\n\nYou must delete some of these records manually before deleting the type, while the system deletes others automatically with the type.\n\n## Procedure\n\n1.  Delete the records associated with the type to delete:\n\n    -   [Assessment results](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/r_AssessmentResults.md) \\(metric and category results\\)\n    -   [Assessment instance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_AssessmentInstances.md) \\(questions and assessment instances, in that order\\)\n    -   [Assessment groups](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_AssessmentGroups.md)\n2.  Delete the type.\n\n    A confirmation dialog box appears and alerts you that certain records associated with the type will also be deleted.\n\n3.  Click **OK** to delete the type and these related records:\n\n    -   Scheduled job for assessment generation\n    -   Business rule for assessable record generation\n    -   Assessable records\n    -   Metric categories\n    -   Category users\n    -   Stakeholders\n    -   Metrics\n    -   Metric definitions\n    -   Decision matrixes\n\n**Parent Topic:**[Metric types and assessable records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_MetricTypesAndAssessableRecords.md)\n\n**Related topics**  \n\n\n[Metric types and assessable records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_MetricTypesAndAssessableRecords.md)\n\n"}}