Hello!
We have completed data collection, and during data collection we needed to collect beneficiary names and phone numbers, but we no longer have use of these and would like to delete them. We have been doing a custom form export and unchecking those boxes, but is there a way to permanently delete only those columns so that there's no chance of them being accidentally exported?
Thanks!
Interested. but, doubt that you can do that.
once a column is created, it's done. to remove that column might mean breaking everything because everything is meta based. taking a column out of there would mean updating so many different objects in the back-end.
You cannot delete a column from an export but you can remove it from there if you delete a question or hidden value from your form. However, deleting the question from the form will result in loss of data, which should never be done.
The obvious and safest way is to uncheck it from the export and save the export, this way you will not have to do it again and again and no one will also do anything with it.