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# Removing Components

There are two options for removing newly added components: Deletion or inactivation.

* **Deletion** will permanently delete the component from the repository.  When you delete a concept, all of its descriptions, source, and destination relationships, children, and associated Reference Set members are deleted as well. You can review the list of components to be deleted in a dialog before confirming the operation. 

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This operation cannot be undone.
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Once you created a version of a component it has an associated effective time and is considered published. Hence, it can not be deleted anymore, only inactivated.
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* **Inactivation** will keep the component in the repository, with its status set to inactive.