Hello,

I want to delete 500+ custom fields. Is there any solution to mass remove custom fields? I have tried with metadata Api using below code. But it gives me below error.

Object with id:04s900000037qo4AAA is InProgress
Error status code: INVALID_CROSS_REFERENCE_KEY
Error message: In field: members - no CustomField named Custom_Field__c found
Object with id:04s900000037qo4AAA is Error

Below is the code:

    public void deleteCustomField(String fullname) throws Exception
    {
        CustomField customField = new CustomField();
        customField.setFullName(fullname);
        
        UpdateMetadata updateMetadata = new UpdateMetadata();
        updateMetadata.setMetadata(customField);
        updateMetadata.setCurrentName(fullname);
        
        AsyncResult[] asyncResults  = metadataConnection.delete(new Metadata[] {customField});
 
        long waitTimeMilliSecs = ONE_SECOND;
 
        do
        {
            printAsyncResultStatus(asyncResults);
            waitTimeMilliSecs *= 2;
            Thread.sleep(waitTimeMilliSecs);
            asyncResults = metadataConnection.checkStatus(new String[]{asyncResults[0].getId()});
        } while (!asyncResults[0].isDone());
 
        printAsyncResultStatus(asyncResults);
    }

    private void printAsyncResultStatus(AsyncResult[] asyncResults) throws Exception {
        if (asyncResults == null || asyncResults.length == 0 || asyncResults[0] == null) {
            throw new Exception("The object status cannot be retrieved");
        }

        AsyncResult asyncResult = asyncResults[0]; //we are creating only 1 metadata object

        if (asyncResult.getStatusCode() != null) {
            System.out.println("Error status code: " +
                    asyncResult.getStatusCode());
            System.out.println("Error message: " + asyncResult.getMessage());
        }

        System.out.println("Object with id:" + asyncResult.getId() + " is " +
            asyncResult.getState());
    }

Is there any other solution (any app) to removing custom fields?

Thanks in advance,

Dhaval Panchal