Deleting All Documents in Typesense Collection on Dashboard
TLDR Stephano asked how to delete all documents in a collection. Jason suggested using delete by query with a numerical field until the feature is officially added.
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Stephano
Stephano
03:29 PM Jason how do you delete all documents in the collection using the dashboard?
Jason
Jason
03:42 PMWe’re yet to add a way to truncate a collection in Typesense core. So until then you want to delete by query using a numerical field, and do something like numerical_field:>=0
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Jason
03:42 PMYou’ll find this option under delete documents
Stephano
Stephano
04:42 PMOkay yeah, thanks. I actually tried running that abs it didn’t delete any items, I’ll try again next time I have documents (ended up just deleting collection) and let u know here it it worked
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