Idea - Remove all unused references

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Hugo Matthioli

Remove all unused references

Implemented

Service Studio

OutSystems 9.1

It would be nice to have a button, in ServiceStudio, to remove all unused references in an eSpace, or a list of unused references which we could then remove.

20 May 2010

MVP

unused variables, actions, screens etc..

20 May 2010

Robert Chanphakeo

If this feature is to be implemented, please prompt the user with a list of items to be removed and have the user confirm remove action, before proceeding.

21 May 2010

Fernando Sousa

I agree with a unused elements report being generated, but the user must confirm wether or not to remove those elements.

21 May 2010

Hermínio Mira

Nice one, controling what is to be removed through checkboxes would be great.

21 May 2010

Evert van der Zalm

MVP

Would really like these one.

Perhaps also could use it for referenced action with aren't uesd?

27 May 2010

Carolina Bessa

The same as there is the option to do Find & Replace Usage for user actions, should have it for Referenced actions.

28 May 2010

Guilherme Jesus

good feature for a cleaning code

11 Jan 2012

Daniel Martins

Staff

Code cleaning, it's not always a easy task.

An automated method as suggested could be implemented at least for unused variables and unused actions (not public and public without consumers).

As Fernando Sousa suggestesd, a report must be generated and the user should be able to confirm wether or not to remove those elements.

21 Aug 2013

Tiago Gafeira

Champion

It would be nice to have a functionality in Service Center to remove all unused references from an eSpace.
It would be awesome to have that in Service Center.

Very useful in large factories.

Merged from 'Remove all unused references from an eSpace' (idea created on 2013-02-01 10:03:01 by Tiago Gafeira), on 2014-01-24 11:57:34 by Gonçalo Borrêga

01 Feb 2013

Tiago Santos

Same idea was placed at https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/167/remove-all-unused-references/

Merged from 'Remove all unused references from an eSpace' (idea created on 2013-02-01 10:03:01 by Tiago Gafeira), on 2014-01-24 11:57:34 by Gonçalo Borrêga

01 Feb 2013

Fernando Sousa

Just like warnings are generated for parameters that are not used in queries, Service Studio should generate warnings for other unused elements, like actions, variables, structures, references, etc., provided that elements are not public.

This would help developers to identify potential problems (e.g.: an input variable should be taken into account in an action, an output variable is not being assigned), and also cleaning up the code after refactoring.

Who knows, you might save some software units?

Merged from 'Generate warnings for unused eSpace elements' (idea created on 2012-07-06 10:08:26 by Fernando Sousa), on 2014-01-24 12:39:09 by Gonçalo Borrêga

06 Jul 2012

Justin James

MVP

I kept meaning to post something like this, great post.

I have save so many SUs just trimming out unused stuff it isn't funny...

J.Ja

Merged from 'Generate warnings for unused eSpace elements' (idea created on 2012-07-06 10:08:26 by Fernando Sousa), on 2014-01-24 12:39:09 by Gonçalo Borrêga

14 Jul 2012

Tiago Bernardo

Champion

One thing I see with new developers not familiarized with the platform (and programming in general) is the use of the ("excellent") technique of copy/paste of flows and then deleting the unwanted elements. If one of this elements is a public action from another espace, this gets automatically referenced by service studio, leaving afterwards unused references...

29 Dec 2014

Pramod Jain

MVP

Agreed with Tiago , we are working on a big project and it has multiple espaces and just because of the copy paste of actions the espcae gets automatically refrenced in other espace.
some times it leads to cyclic refrence between the espaces.

09 Apr 2015

Evert van der Zalm

MVP

Hello,

Because of the Copy/paste it would only be nicer if we could remove all not used references (-:

Kind regards,
Evert

10 Apr 2015

Caio Santana Magalhães

MVP

We need this!

07 Jan 2016

Fabio Rodriguez

unused variables, actions, screens etc..

06 Apr 2016

Tiago Neves

This is now WIP!!!

23 May 2016

Justin James

MVP

Hooray!

J.Ja

23 May 2016

Pramod Jain

MVP

Longly awaited....:)

23 May 2016

Pedro Coelho

MVP

It's now available in the Development Environment 9.0.1.65 - https://www.outsystems.com/home/downloadsdetail/88/1756/

Best regards,
PC

07 Jun 2016

Pedro Coelho

MVP

Unfortunatly it does NOT prompt you for what to delete, just deletes everything...

Best regards,
PC

07 Jun 2016

Cátia Oliveira

Ok... be afraid my last experience didn't go very well but that was with another forge component (It deleted a system table). But I will go see, just see ;)

16 Jun 2016

Vasco Pessanha

Hi guys,
First of all thanks for your feedback, it's so helpful that you share these ideas so that we can understand what is important and what we can do to improve our product.

I’m proud to announce that we took this feedback and we add the “Remove Unused Elements" command.
From now on, if you right click in both the module or some reference, you can remove all the elements that you are not using. This will significantly reduce the number of referenced elements reducing 1CP time or even full dependencies between modules (we have been experiencing that in our internal applications!!)

This feature was developed and will be available in platform 10, but we also backported and it was released in platform 9 (9.1.0.65) and platform 8 (8.0.1.65).

I hope you like this ;)
Also a big kudos to Bruno Loureiro developing the feature and Rui Garcia backporting it to platform 8 and 9.

Cheers,
Vasco Pessanha

06 Jul 2016

Vasco Pessanha

By the way, we are also working in having warnings when you have unused actions, variables, inputs, etc!!

Cheers,
Vasco Pessanha

06 Jul 2016

Pramod Jain

MVP

Great Job..

Regards
-PJ-

06 Jul 2016

Carlos Henriques

Hi Vasco,

Is it only available in version 9.1.0.65 or also any higher version?
I'm using version 9.1.400 and can't find this feature :(

06 Jul 2016

Pedro Coelho

MVP

I'm sure it's a typo, as I said a month ago it's released on the 9.0.1.65

06 Jul 2016

Vasco Pessanha

Sorry guys, indeed a typo!

It was released in both 9.0.1.65 and 9.1.501.0 versions.

Cheers,
Vasco Pessanha

06 Jul 2016

Carlos Henriques

Thanks. I'll wait for version 9.1.501 then :)

06 Jul 2016

Evert van der Zalm

MVP

Jeah, great job!

08 Jul 2016

Johan den Ouden

MVP

Woehoe, yes! Well done.

08 Jul 2016

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13 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

And for older versions ? we can do the same? can you share with us the code?

18 Jul 2016

Vasco Pessanha

Hi Luis,

What older versions are you referring to?

Cheers,

Vasco Pessanha

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Vasco Pessanha

Hi Luis,

You will have to upgrade to the latest version to get this feature!

Cheers,

Vasco Pessanha

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Luis Dinis

I am trying on version 9.0.0.19...

18 Jul 2016

Carlos Henriques

I'm with @Pedro Coelho:

"Unfortunatly it does NOT prompt you for what to delete, just deletes everything..."

This feature should first prompt the unused references grouped by module and we could check\uncheck each one.

30 Jul 2016

Rebecca Hall

It looks like its just references right now. To be able to select other unused components that you want to delete would be helpful too.

05 Aug 2016

Daniel de Witte

Awesome this was added, really helpful!

keep up the good work.

19 Aug 2016

SamyCode

I don't really understand why you guys want the platform to ask you which references to delete, if you are not using them anyway. If you are going to use then in the future, you just add them again.

16 Oct 2016

João Heleno

MVP

I think this feature could be improved.

It would be cool if we could know from what espaces/extensions the elements being deleted are from.

Right now it only tells me what is being deleted. It doesn't tell us from where!

23 Feb 2017

Daniel Martins

Staff

I agree with João Heleno,

Would be nice to have the element respecitve espace/extension in the message.

23 Feb 2017

Vasco Pessanha

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for the feedback! It definitely makes sense to display the reference name.

I fixed it and also grouped the information per reference to be easier to read!

It will be available in the future!

Cheers,

24 Feb 2017

Luis Santos

Great job.

Regards,

Luís

15 Mar 2017

Gonçalo Borrêga

Merged this idea with 'Generate warnings for unused eSpace elements' (created on 2012-07-06 10:08:26 by Fernando Sousa)

24 Jan 2014

Diogo Nesbitt

Hello community,

I read some of these posts talking about remove all unused references on big factory automatically.

You didn't agree that this should be a Service Center feature that do this on all espaces?

It's not just garbage on espaces, and wrong architecture connections on Discovery, and wrong false positives outdated references on Service Center?

I create an new idea for that, if you agree, please vote.
https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/8677/remove-unused-references-automatically-in-ss-and-sc

09 Apr 2020

Akshay Deshpande

Yes, that good idea. I think this will also done on the 1 - click publish. So on publishing of the modules the unused dependency will remove Automatically.

12 Mar 2021