Daniel (Mar 04 2026 at 15:18): Daniel (Mar 04 2026 at 15:18):Hello everyone,
it's me again with another problem :sweat_smile:
Currently, I try to add my own metadatblock to our dataverse installation. However, I want to make some changes to what I have already uploaded with the API. That is, I have a metadatablock datasetfield with name license which caused an error because I overlooked that 'license' is a duplicate. So right now, I am looking for a way to delete this datasetfield license (the one I uploaded). However, I cannot figure out how to delete it. I could not find an API call for that. Using the curl command from https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/admin/metadatacustomization.html#id29 to load a corrected medatablock did not work for me.
Also, is there a polished list of all available API endpoints?
Kind regards
Daniel
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 04 2026 at 15:27):Sadly, we don't have a way to delete a metadata block: Feature Request/Idea: Delete a metadata block (that hasn't been used at all) #9628
Or a way to preview the load of a new one: tsv metadata block import: add preview mode #2551
Any the only way to fix the problem you're talking about is to do surgery in the database. :scream:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 04 2026 at 15:28):https://demo.dataverse.org/openapi is not polished. You could also look at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/api/intro.html#lists-of-dataverse-apis . Sorry it's such a mess. :grimacing: Please feel to start a new topic about this.
Daniel (Mar 04 2026 at 15:32):Philip Durbin 🚀 schrieb:
https://demo.dataverse.org/openapi is not polished. You could also look at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/api/intro.html#lists-of-dataverse-apis . Sorry it's such a mess. :grimacing: Please feel to start a new topic about this.
Ah actually the first link is what is was looking for. Thank you. Maybe polish is not the right word for what I mean. More like minimalistic, I dont know. English is not my first language :D
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