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Status Future consideration
Categories Administration
Created by Guest
Created on May 10, 2022

Need a function to identify unused types and attributes to allow for quick cleanup and confirmance with templates

Currently the only way to remove un-used types is to manually go into every project, check if it is used (or try and delete it which does the check), if it is unused select delete. refresh the interface, and repeat. It takes approx 20 seconds per type to remove. Before components were a thing we had templates that had common schemas for all projects with 100's of types created in there. With approx 50-100 projects there are 1000's of types which are not used, making it inpractical to manually go through a clean them up. These unused types polute the type system and make it very hard in Reporting Service to pick the correct type. We are looking for a simple way to report on all types that do not have an object instance created and have an option to clean them up/delete them. Once that has been done we can re-apply out templates to adjust any existing used types to match the company schemas.
Idea priority High
Needed By Month