Is there a way to delete the Health facility at once?

Sandip_Parajuli · April 17, 2023, 5:19am

right now it should be deleted one by one from lowest hierarchy. so its hectic to delete it one by one after many people and areas are created.

diana · April 17, 2023, 8:48am

Hi @Sandip_Parajuli

I don’t think we currently have a way of cascading deletes across a hierarchy of contacts.
I believe there already is a feature request that tracks this:

github.com/medic/cht-core

Allow deep delete of places that are used for training or testing purpose.

opened 04:26AM - 23 Aug 22 UTC

yrimal

Type: Feature

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Some of our …instances have test places that are created for training purpose and while we exclude these from sql queries in analytics, we also like to delete this from webapp. In some of our cases, we have many contacts and reports under these training places. If we need to delete all these things, we need to find each and every records from Fauxton with multiple queries and delete them. **Describe the solution you'd like** Allow a bulk delete or deep delete option in CHT such that these training palces can be deleted in one go and we don't need to worry about orphan records or places. **Describe alternatives you've considered** Preparing mango query and deleting records.

You’re very welcome to share your use-case here, or on the issue, so we can have a clearer idea of how to prioritize this.
Thanks!

Kenyuri · February 12, 2025, 8:14pm

Hello,
Did you find a workaround for this?

Is it possible to get an api that will help me query the places using external id?

jkuester · February 12, 2025, 11:38pm

Good news! The latest version of cht-conf now includes the delete-contacts action:

When combined with ‘upload-docs’ this action recursively deletes a contact and all of their descendant contacts and data. This operation is permanent. It cannot be undone.

USAGE
cht --local delete-contacts – --contacts=id1,id2

OPTIONS
–contacts=id1,id2 (or --contact=id1,id2)
A comma delimited list of ids of contacts to be deleted.

–disable-users
When flag is present, users at any deleted place will be permanently disabled.

–docDirectoryPath=path to stage docs
Specifies the folder used to store the documents representing the changes in >hierarchy.