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We are currently setting up Business Central in a production environment. We have been testing profusely the functionality of the software, but we have realized we have too many transactions (Sales orders, sales invoices, purchase orders/invoices, G/L entries etc...) and we want to delete it all and start from scratch. Is there a way to do this without coding? We have been using to mainly learn the software and we are to the point where we will soon start testing with actual customers, but would like to have fresh environment to start from. 

  • FJR Profile Picture
    FJR 75 on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    I see, ok thank you for your help, actually tried that and it didn't move over transactions, which is good enough.

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    Nitin Verma 21,091 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    Hi,

    Adding more information

    You can use the Retention Policy but it will help you delete all your logs.

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    You can choose below objects to be removed or schedule them.

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    Amit Baru Profile Picture
    Amit Baru 3,025 on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    Hi,

    Delete the existing Prod. Environment a and setup new one.

    For more info:

    https://erpconsultors.com/how-to-delete-environment-in-d365-bc-saas/

    Regards

    Amit Sharma

    www.erpconsultors.com

    linkedin.com/in/amit-sharma-94542440/

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 74,036 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    Hi, I recommend re-creating the environment directly to be more thorough.

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    Hope this helps as well.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    AD-22040756-1 624 on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    As Kim mentioned its not possible out of the box, but you can try using the following extension which will allow you to delete data from all tables including transactional ones

    navinsights.net/.../

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    Dallefeld Profile Picture
    Dallefeld 11,425 User Group Leader on at
    RE: How to delete all data from Business Central?

    You can setup a new company and import your master data and associated data. But no way to remove transactions.

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