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# Delete a Question or Question Equivalence Class

You can use the ManageResources action to delete a question or a question equivalence class.

After you delete an item, there is a short period in which you can undelete it, before it is permanently deleted from the system. See Undelete a Question or Question Equivalence Class.

To delete a question or question equivalence class, you use a ManageResources action in a POST request method, with the information about the item that you want to delete provided in the Data parameter as a JSON object.

You must include the ID of the item that you want to delete, and set the type of the operation to `question` or `question_equivalence_class`, as appropriate.

NOTE: You cannot delete a question that has the state `answered` (that is, a question that belongs to a question equivalence class). You must remove it from the question equivalence class before you delete it. See Update the Question State and Update a Question Equivalence Class.

You can retrieve the ID of the question or question equivalence class by sending a GetResources action. For example:

    http://localhost:12000?Action=GetResources&SystemName=Answerbank&Type=question_equivalence_class

The following example deletes a question equivalence class.

    Action=ManageResource&SystemName=AnswerBank
    data={
       "operation":"delete",
       "type":"question_equivalence_class",
       "ids": [
          "2012912839742797651"
       ]
    }

You can retrieve the full schema for the JSON object to use by using the GetResources action. See Find the JSON Schema for Your Update.

NOTE: The ManageResources action fails if you attempt to use request JSON that contains properties that are not contained in the appropriate schema.

TIP: Typically, OpenText recommends that you send ManageResources as a POST request. For testing, you can use a GET request, in which case you must base64 encode the JSON data.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Answer Server 26.3

Topic Title: Delete a Question or Question Equivalence Class