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Description:: Destroys the given group. Group must be empty and local to the machine executing command.

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In Arma 3 you can find out locality of the group with local command, unlike with previous games. However owner and setOwner dont work with groups anywhere. The group will always be local to the client that created it, until the client disconnects, then the group becomes local to the server. So if you need to delete a group, delete all members first then execute deleteGroup where is it local.

In Arma 3 when last unit leaves a group, the group gets auto deleted. Manually deleting all units from a group however, does not auto delete the empty group. To force the group to get auto-deleted when empty use deleteGroupWhenEmpty
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See also:: deleteGroupWhenEmpty isGroupDeletedWhenEmpty createGroup units group groupFromNetId

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Posted on December 17, 2006 - 00:34
ColonelSandersLite: The deleteGroup Command does not work when there are living members of in the group. It doesn't error, it simply doesn't do anything.; Posted on 07:50, 10 July 2007 (CEST)
5133p39: Living or not doesn't matter - you can't delete the group while it contains any units - even dead ones. It takes few seconds until a dead unit is automatically removed from its group.; Posted on September 12, 2013 - 03:54
LongEnoughName: deleteGroup will only delete local groups even if called by server. Say we have a situation where client creates a group and puts a unit there and later unit dies\gets deleted, server will not be able to delete that empty group until client leaves the game and group ownership switches to server

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 {{Informative |In Arma 3 you can find out locality of the group with [[local]] command, unlike with previous games. However [[owner]] and [[setOwner]] dont work with groups anywhere. The group will always be local to the client that created it, until the client disconnects, then the group becomes local to the server. So if you need to delete a group, delete all members first then execute [[deleteGroup]] where is it [[local]]. }}<br>
-{{Feature arma3|In Arma 3 when last unit leaves a group, the group gets [[Talk:deleteGroup#group_auto_becoming_null|auto deleted]]. Manually deleting all units from a group however, does not auto delete the empty group. To force the group to get auto-deleted when empty use [[deleteGroupWhenEmpty]]}}|DESCRIPTION=
+{{Feature|arma3|In Arma 3 when last unit leaves a group, the group gets [[Talk:deleteGroup#group_auto_becoming_null|auto deleted]]. Manually deleting all units from a group however, does not auto delete the empty group. To force the group to get auto-deleted when empty use [[deleteGroupWhenEmpty]]}}|DESCRIPTION=
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