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Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 10:15:58 am
Hi,

We are a tenant advocacy organization, our largest use of Civi is to document interactions with clients.

I accidentally imported a set of activities twice, and there are 136 activities I want to delete. I have all 136 Activity IDs; is there any search function which would return all activities whose ID's match any of "4519 5110 5121 etc." ?

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Re: Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 10:37:17 am
Search builder can (sort of) do that. But you can't delete activities from there - so doesn't seem like that helps. Is there some other property of the duplicate activities that you can search in via Find Activities ??
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Re: Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 10:37:43 am
you can use the api to delete these activities in a loop. if u r familiar with sql, you can also use the mysql command line to do so (but do take a backup in case u mess up etc)

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Re: Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 10:46:02 am
Dave, no unfortunately, I can't discern any characteristic of the activities.  Heck if Advanced Search had a field for Activity ID, I could put in a % and it would at least show me a list I could select them from.

Lobo, I am not too familiar with SQL, do you know the basic form of the command I'd write and I can look into modifying it for my purposes?

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Re: Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 11:58:50 am

Code: [Select]
DELETE FROM civicrm_activity WHERE id IN ( 101, 103, 106 );

please test / take backups / no guarantees / use with care etc

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Re: Query multiple activities by their IDs
November 05, 2013, 12:20:27 pm
Donald, that did it! Thanks so much!
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