How to delete Views under Jenkins without effecting existing jobs

Question

I want to delete Views under Jenkins without effecting the Jobs under the view. I am asking this why as I am not able to Enter same name of View even after deleting this as an Administrator.

I checked Config file under Jenkins folder and tried editing the View name but that didn't work.

I need a confirmation whether below script will delete the View name only or along with Jobs under view.

Jenkins.instance.getView("MyView").items.each { item ->

    println "deleting $item.name"

    item.delete()

}

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Answer 1

For deleting a view (and not touching any jobs therein) use

def view = Jenkins.instance.getView("MyView")
Jenkins.instance.deleteView( view )

Your code deletes the jobs in the view (but not the view itself), so be careful with that : )

How to delete Views under Jenkins without effecting existing jobs

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