Deployment Pipeline - Remove old content (delete upstream)

[Danalber]

Hi,

I want to delete an obsolete report in my DEV environment (could also be a flow or something else), can I deploy this change (delete report) with the pipeline upwards to TEST and PROD? I didn't find anything and seems strange if I have to delete this report individually in each environment. Thought this should also be handled and tracked with the pipeline.

Anyone had this issue?

Thanks

BR Daniel

[ibarrau]

Hi. Yes, if you deploy it will delete in test what you have removed at dev. It shows a -1 in red to inform you there is a removed item. As the docs says:

The file content lines are numbered and the lines that were changed are marked as follows:

• Changes shown in the To be modified stage will be removed or overwritten during the next deployment. They're highlighted in red with a '-' sign next to the number.

You can read more about the way it compares in here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-pipelines/compare-pipeline-content?tabs=bro...

I hope that helps

[Danalber]

Hi @ibarrau ,

Thank you for your reply.

I just tried to deploy, but the deleted flow is not removed in Test. I tried to deploy everything (all changes) or just another flow I wanted to updated but with neither one the change of the deleted flow is pushed upstream. And I cannot selected the delete flow in DEV, as it is deleted.

What am I missing?

Thanks again.

Have a nice day

PS: Just double checked the docu, according to that. Deleted items will not be changed, thus deleting upstream doesn't work?! 😕

[SaiTejaTalasila]

Hi @Danalber ,

You can use rest API commands and you can drop them easily.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/fabric/semanticmodel/items/delete-semantic-model?tabs=HTT...

Thanks,

Sai Teja 

[Danalber]

Hi @SaiTejaTalasila ,

Thank you for your reply, I have access and can delete the model or the flow directly but I was hoping that this would also be managed through the pipeline, so we also have a record of the whole deleting process. But seems this is not the case currently.

Have a great day

BR Daniel

[SaiTejaTalasila · Accepted solution]

Hi @Danalber ,

If nothing is there in the dev then how it will compare items of dev with test or prod.If you have deleted report 1 and if you deploying then nothing will flow to next stage and your report will not replaced with nothing.As per my knowledge it's not possible.

Thanks,

Sai Teja 

[Danalber]

Hi,
well, I was expecting also deleting items would be pushed upstream so it is logged in the History of the deployment pipeline. But unfortunately this seems not to be the case. 😞

I have to delete those entries manually in each environment.

But thanks for all the replies.

BR