Unassociated Objects

You can create objects for immediate use in rules or policies. You can also create an object that is unassociated with any rule or policy. When you use that unassociated object in a rule or policy, CDO creates a copy of it and uses the copy. The original unassociated object remains among the list of available objects until it is either deleted by a nightly maintenance job, or you delete it.

Unassociated objects remain in CDO as a copy to ensure that not all configurations are lost if the rule or policy associated with the object is deleted accidentally.

To view unassociated objects click in the left-hand pane of the Objects tab and check the Unassociated checkbox.