Possible to remove an Application Group Field ?

[Nikesh PJ]

Hi,
I have added a new Field in Application Group.
And I want to delete the Field.

Is it possible?
The remove option is disabled in the Field Definitions ! Is it becuse there are documents loaded after the field was added ?

- Nikesh PJ

[Justin Derrick]

Your database engine likely doesn't support deleting a field.  In all honestly, even if they did, I don't think that's something that's supported.

Also, the 'Off Topic - General' forum is meant for things that aren't CMOD related.  You haven't mentioned which platform you're on -- but if you do, I'll move your post to a more appropriate group.

Thanks.

-JD.

[jsquizz]

How I do that -

right click app group - update, add an x or a .old at the end of the name - click ok -
right click app group - copy, remove the x or .old, remove the field
create application / folder mappings

[Justin Derrick]

Yeah, but this means you have to move the data from the old AG to the new AG if this is a production system.

-JD.

[jsquizz]

Assuming maybe your business partners aren't sending that field anymore?

Default it at the application level, and unmap the folder field, another option..

[Nikesh PJ]

Hi JD,
Thanks for the reply.
The platform is Linux.

@jsquizz -  'Default it at the application level, and unmap the folder field, another option..' - I have already done this. And it gets difficult when I need to export Application from one environment to other. (other environment doesn't have this field in AG)
And I have to create the Application manually in other environments, and add a defaut value for this field.

And regarding creating a copy of Application Group - @JD was right. There is lot of data in the Application Group and I don't wish to migrate the data.

-Nikesh PJ

[jsquizz]

Hi JD,
Thanks for the reply.
The platform is Linux.

@jsquizz -  'Default it at the application level, and unmap the folder field, another option..' - I have already done this. And it gets difficult when I need to export Application from one environment to other. (other environment doesn't have this field in AG)
And I have to create the Application manually in other environments, and add a defaut value for this field.

And regarding creating a copy of Application Group - @JD was right. There is lot of data in the Application Group and I don't wish to migrate the data.

-Nikesh PJ

Sounds like ARSXML is your friend for this :)