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Deleting bad import entries

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Hello all,

New member, first time poster.  Sorry if I miss the obvious in some form or fashion.

We've recently started using RMS for a small retail store.  Part of the services offered by the reseller included some migration services from our old BEST system.  We've been running for a few months now and I've just noticed that there are over 2000 items in RMS without a description that seem to originate from a bad import attempt.  I'd rather not have to deal with constantly excluding these items from reports by marking them as inactive if possible.  Are there any risks to simply deleting them?  I know there have been a few sales of these items as the result of some errors (4 or 5 instances).

If there are risks is there a way to perform a restore operation a few days/weeks later?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Antonijo Todorovik Profile Picture
    4,025 on at
    RE: Deleting bad import entries

    Hi Kogger.

    To aswer Your question on deleting the Items - it will not create inconsistencies in the database, except this next :

    - When You run a report (sales report for example), since the items have been deleted, the report will not be able to show you the Item information, like ItemlookupCode, description, etc..., but You can still see the image / photo of the sales transaction (if exists in the database)

    - If You have any Purchase Orders, InterStore transfers or similar, that includes this items, RMS will not be able to show you that Item

    - If You have suppliers, that servse You this Items, it could be that you can't see the Item information per supplier...

    - In case You want to do a return transaction, by recalling a sale that have included one of those Items that you want to delete, RMS will pop up a message that the Item is not in the database

    At the end, understanding that this is a single store (only one RMS database, not HQ environment), You can do a massive delete from the Administrator, but please You:

    - ALWAYS do a database backup before deleting

    - make sure there is nobody using the system (RMS) in that moment of deleting

    - check if there are no workorders, backorders or purchase orders that include any of those items

    - once deleted, test the system, by opening the Manager and POS and make test transactions and similar..

    Regards, A.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Deleting bad import entries

    You can mark them all as inactive with the administrator using a query as well if you like... Shouldn't take more than a couple minutes for someone familiar with SQL

  • Kogger Profile Picture
    75 on at
    RE: Deleting bad import entries

    Hi Jakub,

    Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.  I agree that the first option will be much faster.  However, I'm concerned that it will create some inconsistencies in the database that will cause problems.

    Any insight?

    Kogger

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Deleting bad import entries

    Using the administrator run a query to delete all items with a blank description... Or go through one by one and delete them. The first option sounds the quickest though. Your installer should be able to help you with that

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