{"id":101,"date":"2020-02-17T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-how-to-delete-a-site-column\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:43:19","slug":"how-to-delete-a-site-column","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-delete-a-site-column\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete a site column"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here you find instructions on how to delete site columns from <a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/get-started\/definition-of-columns-and-content-types\/#definition-of-the-content-type-hub\">SharePoint&#8217;s content type hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-open-a-site-content-type\/\">Open a site content type<\/a>.<\/li><li>On the top of the content type&#8217;s page, click on &#8220;Site Settings&#8221;:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"140\" class=\"wp-image-8774\" style=\"width: px;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Switch-to-site-settings.jpg\" alt=\"Switch to site settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Switch-to-site-settings.jpg 717w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Switch-to-site-settings-300x59.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/li><li>Under the &#8220;Web Designer Galleries&#8221; click on the &#8220;Site columns&#8221; link:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3511\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252-2.png\" alt=\"The link to site columns\"><\/li><li>Select the column that you want to delete from the content type hub by clicking on its name.<\/li><li>On the bottom of the form, click on the &#8220;Delete&#8221; button.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A site column that is being used in any content type will not be able to be deleted. To delete it, you first need to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-remove-columns-from-a-site-content-type\/\">remove the column from all content types<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you find instructions on how to delete site columns from SharePoint&#8217;s content type hub. Open a site content type. On the top of the content type&#8217;s page, click on &#8220;Site Settings&#8221;: Under the &#8220;Web &#8230; <a title=\"How to delete a site column\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-delete-a-site-column\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to delete a site column\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10709,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-101","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/9485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}