Bulk Deleting all outstanding update requests

Mikecol

Hello,

I have a few hundred update request on a Smartsheet that simply need to be deleted out. I can go one-by-one and delete these out, but I was hoping there was a way to bulk delete them out. Is there a way to do this?

Genevieve P.

Hi @Mikecol

At this time Update Requests need to be manually deleted one at a time. Please provide your feedback and enhancement request to our Product team through this form, here!

If all your requests were from one sheet and you're looking to clear out all rows, you could create a copy of your sheet with Save as New, delete the old sheet, then work off of the new, duplicate version. Would that work for you?

Cheers,

Genevieve

PM_Ninja312

Hi - I'm assuming the bulk deleting of outstanding requests is still not current functionality. Is that correct?

Genevieve P.

Hi @PM_Ninja312 That's correct!

cmore04

Can we get this added as a feature please, it is something I've had to deal with multiple times and confuses the users of the sheet when there are hundreds of update requests but it is too long of a process to manually go in and delete each one.

Marcela

Hello @cmore04,

Feel free to browse the Product Ideas tab at the top of this page to see if someone has already submitted the idea. If the idea has already been submitted, you can add your vote. If it has not, you can submit it yourself.

Either way, please provide a link to the idea here so that other users looking for the same thing can easily add their votes.

Cheers,

Marcela.

Roy Hilo

Has this been resolved? I am approaching 1000 updates that need to be closed. I have deleted the Request Update workflows and this will take me 3-4 weeks to resolved manually.

Genevieve P.

Hi @Roy Hilo

There isn't a way to bulk-delete all update requests from a sheet directly in the Smartsheet application, however if you are on a Business or Enterprise plan, you can perform this same action using the Smartsheet API if that helps.

Here's a link to the documentation: https://smartsheet.redoc.ly/tag/updateRequests#operation/sentupdaterequest-delete

Cheers,

Genevieve

MPath

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/404265#Comment_404265

How about now? :D

I know the answer, because I have just tried ;)