Hide/Delete Property for Category

[katterbauer]

Hi,

how can i hide / disable / delete a certain property definition for specific categories?

Situation:

- Property "Price" is available for category "A" and category "B".

- After a year or so you find out that you do not need the "Price" for category "A". It should still be available for "B".

- It is ease to configure this in the configuration. This is good enough for all new files since the configuration change. The price property is no longer here for category "A". 

- The question now is how to disable the property for all legacy files within category "A"?  It still shows up for all these files?

thank you,

klaus

[olearya · Accepted solution]

Hi Klaus,

In order to remove property from existing files you need to remove with "Add / Remove Property" from the Action menu.  I would suggest doing a search for all files in that category where "Price is not empty" and removing in bulk.

[katterbauer]

Hi Allan,

if I do the "Remove Property" as you suggested, it not only removes the property for the selected files - it removes the property completely for all files & categories...

klaus

[cbenner · Accepted solution]

Did you use this menu?

This will open a list of properties tied to a specific file, select the property and you'll see "Action" on the right.  Under there is Add or Remove.  This will add or remove that property from only the file selected.

[katterbauer]

Perfect!

I was not aware of this functionality - i just knew of the "+" and "-" symbols in the property grid...

Thanks a lot,

klaus