After bulk uploading equipment to Connect, you may find a piece of equipment that needs to be removed from the database. Connect mutations will need to be utilized to achieve this via a GraphQL client such as Altair.
There are two pieces of information we need to achieve this.
The building ID
The equipment ID
Retrieving the Building ID
There are two methods to retrieve the building ID.
Method 1
The first method is to navigate to the buildings Noda page. In the address bar, within the image above, there is a part that says “/building/”. The code that follows is the building ID and has been highlighted below:
Method 2
The second method is to use the Connect mutation “Buildings” in the Altair client/plugin. After sending the query, click the right side of the screen and press Ctrl F to search the results. Once found copy the id as depicted above.
Retrieving the Equipment ID
Now that you have the building ID, we can locate the equipment ID. First, paste the building ID you just copied into the query (Example: building(id:"YourBuildingIdHere")). Next, you will send the query and wait for the results. Then click the right side of the screen and press Ctrl F to search the results for the desired equipment. Once found copy the id as depicted above.
Deleting an Equip vis Connect Mutation
Now that you have the equipment ID let's delete the entity.
First, paste the equipment ID into the mutation. Afterward, send the query and wait for the result. If successful, you should receive the return message depicted above.
mutation{
deleteEquipment(equipmentId:"YourEquipmentIdHere")
}