Best option to hide question choices in the catalog

[GB14]

What is the best option to hide question choices in the catalog that are no longer valid anymore?

I went through a few articles but still trying to figure out what is the best option without affecting historical data?

[GB14]

Hey Jaspal, 

Deleting the option will impact the historical data or not?

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

Deleting an option will delete also remove it from the requested item.

It is possible to write a onLoad() script to remove the choices but if choices again needs to be revised, this would affect the requested item too.

The other option is to copy the select box variable and deactivate the old select box variable. Go to Question Choices table (question_choice) and open the choices necessary in the new select box and copy them to the new select box variable (e.g.  in the "Question" field, select the new selection box and right click on the header and select "Insert").

[GB14 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for all your response. 

Deactivating isn't an option so I ended up deleting and confirmed the question choice still exists in the old RITMs and it did not impact the historical data.  

[Jaspal Singh]

Great to know but something similar was suggested in comments before.