We’re working on two new features in Central to make it easier to safely clean up Entity Lists and Properties. The first is Entity List deletion: You’ll be able to delete an Entity List, but only if it’s not referenced by any Forms. If there are linked Forms, Central will show you a dropdown of wh…

Entity List and property deletion were added in Central v2026.1.0. See docs: https://docs.getodk.org/central-entities/#deleting-entity-lists https://docs.getodk.org/central-entities/#deleting-entity-properties

I'm sure this will be welcomed by others, I certainly look forward to deleting lists like my list my list2 my list2a my list final my list final2 my list definitely final And also removing properties in those lists that have become orphaned / unused due to changes in project design / needs will b…

“What he said…” Apparently I am in a similar position. Being able to adapt existing entity lists to remove (as well as already being able to add) properties will be very welcome - sometimes I have found that a property that seemed to be essential during development and testing is actually redundan…

That will be an excellent feature addition. I have the very same observation that @seewhy has – create a property during development and then realize that it is no longer needed!

YES, please add these delete methods. Thank you!

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