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# How can I delete or finalize  a process instance?

Bear in mind that only users that have the Administrator role will be able to delete a [process instance](/en/article/what-are-process-instances-1cdc96/).

To delete it you should go to Metrics and Reports > Real-Time > select the process > select the task, and there you'll see the list of all the documents belonging to that task. On the right you'll see several buttons: 

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/5a899047-9b38-48ab-9475-31c8c63a3183/6814c3af-c679-43b3-9f1e-91d3da709d57.gif)

 * Dustin bin icon: It deletes a document.
 * Circle with the white line: It finalizes an active document.
*  Paper airplane: It re-sends the notification of assignment to a task to the assignees to complete it.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/5a899047-9b38-48ab-9475-31c8c63a3183/9bc7603f-d1eb-4fed-ab16-29650bbd05b5.png)

||| When you delete a document, all information associated with it will be deleted.

The same thing will happen if you had set up a parallelism and you have two tasks that correspond to the same process instance, if you delete one, both will be deleted.