How to deleting multiple individual information

[summerghw]

Hi, I need to update my local LOVD instance, but now i can only delete individual one by one by click the "Delete individual entry" menu. Is there any way to delete multiple individuals information?

[ifokkema]

Hi, thank you for your suggestion! Unfortunately, we don't have this option now, but I totally understand how this would be very useful. I'll leave this issue open until I have time to implement it.

For now, unfortunately, the only way is one by one through LOVD, or delete the selection through the MySQL database directly. Deleting the Individuals will also automatically remove the Phenotype entries and the Screening entries, but it will leave the Variant entries "orphaned", without a related entry. So what I usually do in these cases is first to identify the variants related to these Individuals, then delete the VariantOnGenome entries (which automatically removes the VariantOnTranscript entries, too), and then delete the Individual entries. You'll probably want to create a backup of your database before performing actions directly in MySQL.

[summerghw]

thank you for reply, I will try this way.