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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Discovery
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 12, 2018

Delete button for individual docs/results

Currently there is no simple or interactive way to delete documents within the WDS toolkit making it difficult for non-developers to manage the WDS corpus without having to use curl/sdk/api. While it is easy to upload individual documents via drag and drop, it should be just as easy for a user to delete a document from the corpus as well. This could perhaps be implemented as a 'bin' button that is appended to each result in the query tab and clicking on it would initiate an api call to delete the document from the corpus. 

One side feature to consider would also be an update button that allows users to update particular document metadata fields as well.

  • Guest
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    Mar 8, 2023

    This now exists in the WD tooling.

  • Guest
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    Apr 15, 2021

    So this is pretty basic functionality and this idea has been out there swince 2018. If I upload a few docs and I need to delete one of them, I can't through the UI. If you offer the UI to add a doc then you need to offer a UI to remove one.

  • Guest
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    Jan 29, 2019

    Thinking very briefly about it I think that would be acceptable - i assume a use case where a user wanted to maintain the training they would upload the same docs to overwrite, since the doc ids matter

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    JOHN PECORARI
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    Jan 29, 2019

    while it might not be expected, would it present a real problem if it was deleted?  basically, to help reduce scope for this feature, the simplest thing to do for a "delete all documents" function is for tooling delete the collection behind the scenes and then create a new one with the same name and collection id.  So while it would delete all docs and retain the original collection attributes, it would delete all collection data vs just the documents.  For the main scenario where this feature is likely helpful, the question is would that be acceptable behavior?

  • Guest
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    Jan 29, 2019

    i wouldn't expect synonyms to be deleted, but i might expect training data to be deleted

  • Admin
    JOHN PECORARI
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    Jan 29, 2019

    I have quick question to those interested.  As part of implementing support for this feature, would it be acceptable if all collection assets such as training data, synonyms, etc.were all deleted when a user chose to "delete all documents" from a collection?  Note that deleting an individual document would not delete all collection assets.

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Ability to DELETE all at once or specific documents from the tooling

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Ability to DELETE all at once or specific documents from the tooling (now it is possible only via API). I always am enforced to delete the whole collection to "clear" docs (and repeat the collection and config creation steps).
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration