Is there anyway to rename a table field (NOT the label for the field)?

[sherman_1206]

I know you can change the label of a field. But lets say you add a field to a form called "Size (Gigabytes)". This field in Service now becomes "u_size__gigabytes_". Well lets say we go back and decide we really meant megabytes or terabytes perhaps. Sure changing the label is fine but what I realize is now all web services interacting with this WSDL will be using the field "u_size__gigabytes_" to pull some amount of terabytes/megabytes (whatever we changed it to) but need to use the field as its labeled.

Sure you can be cautious and do your best to prevent this, perhaps make the field first as just size and then after making it personalize the label which will leave the field name unchanged for your Web services and what not.

What if it is too late and you want to make these changes now but the field is already there?

[sherman_1206]

Browny points if you can tell me how to delete a field from a form. After an instance has been running awhile and many users have configured various parts of it, I would like to go back through and get rid of fields we added and decided later to remove and not use. How can I get rid of the junk fields/data easily?

Also, I know you can delete all records from a table. How can I delete the table itself? if I make a table and than later realize a table out of the box already exists for that purpose and we use the out of the box table, how can I clean up my mess and get rid of the self created table?

[CapaJC]

Can't change a column name, but you can delete a custom field by Personalizing Dictionary on that field and clicking the Delete Column button.

To delete a custom table, open the table's Dictionary entry (the one with no Element value and an Internal Type of "collection"), and you'll see a "Delete Table" button.

[sherman_1206]

This is great information. I wish this was more prevalent because from day one of using SN I have wondered this. Thanks!

[nigelharrison]

I have just raised this question, as I am modifying existing Forms/Labels and noted the new name/label will not match the element/Column name.
I did note that when you edit the Dictionary from the field vrs the Field Label the Column Name is not editable in the dictionary but it is in the Field Label. Now the new question is are they the same thing, (Element/colmn Name) and if I edit the element and will it rename the colmn and/or will it cause any damage.

I will probably answer my own question, test it in DEV but if anyone see's this and can answer before hand great (and thanks)