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tomasmanuelg9422
June 24, 2026
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Delete applications with contents

  • June 24, 2026
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Hi team,

We're struggling the the disk usage of our training environment as it's reaching its full capacity, there are several applications that can be deleted completely. However, there's no bulk deletion of applications including its contents, out-of-the-box.

Do you know any easier way to perform these deletions? 

P.D.: We would like to delete the DB objects (tables, views, etc) related to these applications as well.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Tomás

Best answer by tomasmanuelg9422

Hi all,

Thanks for your comments. Even though I agree that manual deletion is the best approach generally, in this case we really need the bulk deletion as our environment has around 1200 apps not modified since 2024, mostly testing/training apps without dependencies.

That's why we've finally developed an Appian RPA to delete application contents to free ourselves from that manual workload.

Thanks again!

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harshk1671
harshk1671
June 24, 2026

You can try using the Delete Folder Contents smart service for objects stored in a folder. You will still need to manually delete a few objects such as CDTs and Records, but this approach will reduce the overall time required.

Tables and views are easier to handle if you run a SQL query to identify objects containing your keywords, and then delete the corresponding tables and views in bulk.
for example: select TABLE_NAME,COLUMN_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where COLUMN_NAME like '%LOG%' order by TABLE_NAME

Hope that helps.

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tomasmanuelg9422Author
June 24, 2026

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

It seems this smart service works with Folders such as Knowledge centers or any other documents folder, not with Rule or Process Model folders.

Regards,

Tomás

shubhama926776
shubhama926776
June 25, 2026

We initially tried multiple automated/scripted approaches, but after spending considerable time we realized manual deletion per application would have been faster and given us better control over exactly what gets deleted.

harshas2775
harshas2775
June 25, 2026

Best viable solution, though time taking in reviewing and deleting manually in my experience. Avoids dependency errors as well as erroneous deletions in general. 

First, for db objects prepare scripts successfully and then you can run them all together at one go. Once db objects are deleted,  For Appian objects - I would suggest to add the objects carefully to a separate package which you want to delete - then review contents so that nothing relevant gets deleted and lastly delete the artifacts until package is empty. 

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    tomasmanuelg9422AuthorAnswer
    July 3, 2026

    Hi all,

    Thanks for your comments. Even though I agree that manual deletion is the best approach generally, in this case we really need the bulk deletion as our environment has around 1200 apps not modified since 2024, mostly testing/training apps without dependencies.

    That's why we've finally developed an Appian RPA to delete application contents to free ourselves from that manual workload.

    Thanks again!

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