JSON file tracking which records are removed from data packages

[abvogel]

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[rnwood]

Hi. Thanks for this tool.

What's your recommendation on how to handle removing (or perhaps deactivating) records that are in the target instance but not (or no longer) in the source data?

I figure this feature is related to that, so how are you currently handling this?

[abvogel]

@rnwood - Ideally, you could mark them as inactive, and if filters are set up properly they'd drop out of views/plugins/whatever. Otherwise, I've seen manual steps, or PowerShell scripts to identify/remove specific records, or C# code in the Package Deployer. There isn't a "mirror" capability currently, as the Config Migration Tool also doesn't handle deletes.

[rnwood]

@abvogel thanks for the confirmation.

So a nice idea for a tool here to complement the CMT and your tool would be something that can remove/deactivate the records identified by a data package.

Then you could run an export after applying the main package and a "subtract" with your tool would create the package identifying the extraneous records to be fed in for deletion.