I created a test leaderboard while playing around and evaluating PlayFab. Now I can't seem to delete this test leaderboard.
I created a test leaderboard while playing around and evaluating PlayFab. Now I can't seem to delete this test leaderboard.
We'll be providing a way to delete statistics in an upcoming release. If you've only just started development, the simplest solution for now would be to just use that Title ID for experimentation, and set up a fresh one for your targeted release.
Brendan, any idea when this will be available? it will be very useful for us, because some time developer just made a mistake or mistype by the leaderboard id
Completely understood, but unfortunately, until something is well along in development, we can't really provide a date for it. Otherwise, we might wind up with someone taking a dependency on us for something where we may not deliver by that date. As soon as this is available, we'll be updating the community.
Can you do this manually? I had to rename a few statistics, so I have some unused ones now. It is not completely necessary for me now, but it is a bit confusing a consumes my limit.
Hi, has this been updated yet? It's driving me crazy that I can't delete a test leaderboard I recently created. I understand development priorities more than most, but 10 months later and no solution to something that seems very simple to implement?
,Hi is there any update on this? 10 months later from the original post I feel like this is something that should have been taken care of by now, no?
Unfortunately, the time when something is first requested isn't really relevant to prioritization. What is, is the impact the change will have and the number of titles impacted. Since most developers have been using test title(s) for experimentation before building their release candidate, this hasn't been identified as a priority for many folks (where other things, which were, did get prioritized).
Firstly, thanks for the response Brendan. I understand. For some reason my old comment that I thought didnt go through got added onto the 2nd one I wrote, apologies for the redundancy. Anyway, just to clear things up, will this ever be implemented? How does this feature impact titles and whatnot? Maybe it could just "hide" that specific leaderboad on the frontend but not actually delete the data in the backend?
We just ran into the statistics limit and looks like there still is no way to get rid of not used or obsolete leaderboards. Something like this should really, really be support by the dashboard. Making a mistake while creating a leaderboard or even changing leaderboards in a live title from version to version shouldn't be considered as "most developers don't require this". (all this wouldn't be a problem if one doesn't run into the limit to not being able to create more leaderboards)
Hello. I'd like to point out that there is a simple solution to this problem.
It is already possible to clear a Leaderboard's data and even change how the data is recorded after a leaderboard has been created. So, instead of using a statistic's name in your game as the name of the statistic of a leaderboard in PlayFab, use some arbitrary system like sequentially increasing set of numbers for instance as the statistic name for a leaderboard in PlayFab. Then, in your game's code, match a statistic's name in PlayFab with the statistic's name in your game when user statistics get loaded. That way the leaderboard tables themselves can be cleared out and reused when you need to without the "name" of the leaderboard being an issue. This inability to change a leaderboard's name is a common problem across most backend game services so sticking to arbitrary leaderboard names is a good idea no matter what backend you end up using.
Having said the above, it would be quite nice if PlayFab made all this simpler by giving leaderboards a sequential name at their end and then give game makers the ability to change the "name" tag of said table without involving the creation and deletion of new leaderboards. Or, at least give game makers the ability to add a name tag to a leaderboard so we won't have to look back and forth between a matching list of sequentially named PlayFab leaderboards to our in-game leaderboards to find out what PlayFab leaderboard is tracking the statistic for what in-game leaderboard. Hopefully we'll see something like this in a future update sooner than later.
Any update on this @Brendan? I created a test leaderboard not realizing that it could not be deleted.
Leaderboards count towards the quota, so it makes good sense to be able to clean up unused leaderboards created during early development.
This is a good point, I want to cleanup some old leaderboards/statistics that I no longer use and it's frustrating that it counts toward quota but can't be cleaned up. I guess I really will be paying for my mistakes or progress :(
Waiting for this feature too. I have no idea why it cant be deleted.
Vote on the feature request instead of commenting further here:
https://community.playfab.com/idea/13891/ability-to-delete-stats.html
It is currently the highest voted item on the list! I guess there is a good chance they will try to address it.
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