I found this tool out on the web. It’s a bulk delete
tool for CRM 4.0 since it doesn’t have a bulk delete option. (As far as
I’ve been told, CRM 4.0 Online does, but CRM 4.0 does not). Anyways, you
run the executable and it gives you a very simple UI. All you need to do
is create a view for the entity with all the records you want to bulk
delete.
1. Run
the executable
2. The
bottom corner shows you’re not connected. Click the drop down and ‘Create
a new Connection…’
3. You
will get the connection information screen
4. Give
it all your information and click ‘OK’.
5. You’ll
now see you’re connected at the bottom of your screen. And in the future,
you will have that connection information available to you in that small
dropdown as shown below:
6. NOTE:
for this to work as you want it to, you need to create a view on that entity
for the records you want to delete. If this is going to be routine,
perhaps a CRM job plugin might be better, but we’ve had several instances where
we loaded a CRM instance with a test data and want to dump it all, so here’s a
fun tool for it. Create your view. (I’m assuming here you know how to do
that).
7. After
your view is created, enter your entity in the textbox and click ‘Retrieve
Views’. You’ll now get a list of those views.
8. You
can schedule it to run in the future or recur but, again, I think a plugin
would be more beneficial for that. You can also have it send you an email
after the job is done deleting. It’s not perfect but it’s out
there.
Enjoy.