# Is it possible to delete multiple records simultaneously? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830 "2020-04-19T19:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoCodeJedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/nocodejedi/32/414_2.png) [@NoCodeJedi](https://forum.adalo.com/u/NoCodeJedi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/1 "2020-04-19T19:37:07Z")
Hi guys, Simple example. I have a list of questions and each question in connected to a list of answers (1-M). What I would love to do is to be able to delete a question and all the answers associated to the question _in one go_. What I’ve been doing in when I delete a room I delete a question and an answer and I write the room to a deleted questions collection and then manually check what rooms have been deleted and go through the answer collections and delete answer associated to that question… 🙂 Does anyone have any idea if this can be done? Francisco ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/ben/32/9_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/2 "2020-04-19T22:29:05Z")
@NoCodeJedi are you wanting to do this in the data tab or in the interface of your app via an action? ---
**Author:** ![sebapereyro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/sebapereyro/32/276_2.png) [@sebapereyro](https://forum.adalo.com/u/sebapereyro)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/3 "2020-04-19T23:19:37Z")
It would be ideal on both 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scriptchool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@scriptchool](https://forum.adalo.com/u/scriptchool)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/4 "2020-04-20T00:55:08Z")
If you’re modifying the data tab, please add a ‘delete all’ button - so if I’m in a data type and have 100+ records I can just delete them all. Also please add a checkbox for each record so we can check all items quickly - snd then uncheck those we want to keep - and delete them. As noted elsewhere in the forum there is a bug in the upload CSV feature. It’s frustrating to upload a csv and get only a partial upload… with no way to delete the hundreds of items that successfully uploaded (hundreds of items often successfully upload even if there’s an overall csv failure). In such a case, all items need to be deleted and then the attempt has to be made again. Since that isn’t practical with the existing data tab, the result is that _the entire data type has to be deleted and set up again_ - and then all the app/page items have to be re-mapped to the redone data type. I’ve done this several times and it’s bad enough that I’m moving to the airtable api (in Adalo) to get data, so I don’t have to import and experience this any more. A delete all button would go a long way to correct this… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![NoCodeJedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/nocodejedi/32/414_2.png) [@NoCodeJedi](https://forum.adalo.com/u/NoCodeJedi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/5 "2020-04-20T06:55:12Z")
Hi @Ben, I am trying to allow a user on the app to do this. In fact I have a game room with questions (1-M) and then questions have answers (1-M) and when a user deletes the game room I would like to automatically delete all the questions and answers associated with that delete action. If you can help me figure this one out I’d appreciate 🙂 Regards, Francisco ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/ben/32/9_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/6 "2020-04-22T02:10:39Z")
@NoCodeJedi There’s not really a way to do that currently. Is it necessary to delete the records of the questions and answers? ---
**Author:** ![NoCodeJedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/nocodejedi/32/414_2.png) [@NoCodeJedi](https://forum.adalo.com/u/NoCodeJedi)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/7 "2020-04-22T21:24:15Z")
Yes, what I would like to do is, even if it would be a multi stepped action for example: **ACTION 1:** Action \> Delete And then have a filter option where I could select: Game Room ID Equals Current Game Room \> Game Room ID (add filter) Current Game Room \> Questions \> Answers \> All {This would delete all the answers to all the questions in the Game Room} **ACTION 2:** And then go again: Action \> Delete Filter option: Game Room ID Equals Current Game Room \> Game Room ID (add filter) Current Game Room \> Questions \> All {This would delete all the questions in the Game Room} **ACTION 3:** And finally add a final action: Action \> Delete Filter option: Game Room ID Equals Current Game Room \> Game Room ID Assuming Adalo follows the actions in order, which I believe it does, this would allow us to delete multiple records at once. Francisco ---
**Author:** ![grid7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/grid7/32/858_2.png) [@grid7](https://forum.adalo.com/u/grid7)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delete-multiple-records-simultaneously/830/8 "2020-06-02T08:47:48Z")
@scriptchool FYI I created a hack for this deficiency to enable bulk deletion of records from an Adalo collection. See [this](https://grid7.com/2020/06/browser-automation-katalon-studio/). Has video + links to the project file on Github you can just download and run from within Katalon. BTW you should vote up this feature request if you haven’t already: [Bulk delete collection records | Voters | Adalo](https://ideas.adalo.com/feature-requests/p/bulk-delete-collection-records)