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Deleting or removing Object from MetaData folder in azure and devops Portal

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Posted on by Shabir Ahmad

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Hi Experts,

I have Deleted Objects from MetaData folder in azure and devops Portal. There will be any affect of this. Basically i wanted to remove unwanted object. First i did checkout and edit in my project but that didn't work so i delete it from here any affect.

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Shabir Ahmad

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Komi Siabi 13,109 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi Shabir,

The appropriate way is to add whatever you want to delete to a project (part of source control); delete the object then commit. Your metadata folder is automatically updated on azure devops.

Now that you delete the objects directly on devops, to have same in your development environment, you would have to do get latest on the metadata folder in Visual studio.

In a nutshell deleting on devops without "get latest" won't have any effect on your development machine.

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Shabir Ahmad 3,110 on at

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Hi Komi Siabi

The appropriate way is to add whatever you want to delete to a project (part of source control); delete the object then commit. Your metadata folder is automatically updated on azure devops. (I did same many time. but there was no effect.

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Shabir Ahmad 3,110 on at

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Hi Komi Siabi,

As i did get latest on metadata folder i recieved the above warning of conflict any idea?

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Shabir

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Komi Siabi 13,109 Most Valuable Professional on at

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When you edit an object and build, does it appear under pending changes in Team explorer tab ?

When you commit what do you notice?

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The conflict message simply means you have same object on both devops and metadata folder (dev vm) but with different content.

You could decide to compare both item and keep one.

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If you know what you want to delete then it is fine. First, I assume your Main is your development branch. You can delete the entity is not needed by you here, remember to delete the staging table, security privileges' and duties too.

If you dev box does not contain anything you didn't commit, you could delete entire folder and get latest from your repo if you are sure there is no pending change is needed or you could shelve all the pending changes before you delete the entire model.

After that, get latest again from repo and you would have clean one.

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