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Delete Custom Field

Method: DELETE
Endpoint: /api/deleteCustomField/{id}/{force}


Response Parameters

Parameter Type Description
status JSON Success or Error
result JSON Result of the operation
response JSON Output of the operation


Example Request (CURL)

<?php

// Authentication
$api_token	=	'API_KEY'; // Mumara API Key (can be found in Settings -> API Key)
$domain		=	'http://www.anydomain.com'; // Your Mumara Domain Name

// API Endpoint
$endpoint	=	'/api/deleteCustomField/';

//Custom field id
$id = '13/';

//flag force
$force = 1;

// Defining cURL Request
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$domain.$endpoint.$id.$force);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
    array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $api_token));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Executing cURL
$output = curl_exec ($ch);

// Printing Output
echo "<pre>";
echo json_encode(json_decode($output),JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

// Closing cURL
curl_close ($ch);
?>


Example Response (JSON)

 {
    "status": "success",
    "result": "Success: Custom field has been successfully deleted."
 }
Status value of the success response will be "Success"


Example Error Response (JSON)

 {
    "status": "error",
    "result": "Error: Please unassign custom field from the associated lists before it can be deleted. Otherwise you can forcibly delete custom field by parsing force=1."
 }


Possible Errors

  • Invalid custom field id
  • Access Denied
DELETE
/api/deleteCustomField/{id}/{force}
Try it out