---
title: Situations specific to implicit synchronization and liveSync
description: Certain situations occur only during implicit synchronization (when changes made in the repository are pushed out to external systems) and liveSync (when IDM polls external system change logs for changes and updates the repository).
component: pingidm
version: 8.1
page_id: pingidm:synchronization-guide:autosync-and-livesync
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingidm/8.1/synchronization-guide/autosync-and-livesync.html
keywords: ["Synchronization"]
---

# Situations specific to implicit synchronization and liveSync

Certain situations occur only during implicit synchronization (when changes made in the repository are pushed out to external systems) and liveSync (when IDM polls external system change logs for changes and updates the repository).

The following table shows the situations that pertain only to implicit sync and liveSync, when records are *deleted* from the source or target resource.

**Situations detected during implicit sync or liveSync deletion events**

| Source Qualifies | Link Exists | Targets Found \[[1](#_footnotedef_1 "View footnote.")] | Targets Qualify | Situation       | Default Action        | Possible Actions                                   |
| ---------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------- | --------------- | --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| n/a              | **YES**     | 0                                                      | n/a             | LINK\_ONLY      | EXCEPTION             | IGNORE, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC                    |
| n/a              | **YES**     | 1                                                      | 1               | SOURCE\_MISSING | EXCEPTION             | DELETE, IGNORE, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC            |
| n/a              | **YES**     | 1                                                      | 0               | TARGET\_IGNORED | IGNORE                | DELETE, UNLINK, EXCEPTION, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC |
| n/a              | **NO**      | 0                                                      | n/a             | ALL\_GONE       | IGNORE                | EXCEPTION, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC                 |
| **YES**          | **NO**      | 0                                                      | n/a             | ALL\_GONE       | IGNORE                | EXCEPTION, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC                 |
| **YES**          | **NO**      | 1                                                      | 1               | UNASSIGNED      | EXCEPTION             | REPORT, NOREPORT                                   |
| **YES**          | **NO**      | > 1                                                    | > 1             | AMBIGUOUS       | EXCEPTION             | IGNORE, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC                    |
| **NO**           | **NO**      | 0                                                      | n/a             | ALL\_GONE       | IGNORE                | EXCEPTION, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC                 |
| **NO**           | **NO**      | 1                                                      | 1               | TARGET\_IGNORED | IGNORE target object  | DELETE, UNLINK, EXCEPTION, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC |
| **NO**           | **NO**      | > 1                                                    | > 1             | UNQUALIFIED     | DELETE target objects | EXCEPTION, IGNORE, REPORT, NOREPORT, ASYNC         |

***

[1](#_footnoteref_1). If no link exists for the source object, IDM executes any included correlation logic. If a link exists, correlation does not apply.