# How to delete Questions / Response scales with answers

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**Created:** [September 17, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/how-to-delete-questions-response-scales-with-answers/489 "2024-09-17T11:27:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:14am UTC](https://community.novulo.com/t/how-to-delete-questions-response-scales-with-answers/489/4 "2024-09-18T09:14:06Z")

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@Kimberley, you can find Answers table (grid) within Overviews, but this grid doesn’t have the “Delete” button, so you can use [a scheduled task](https://community.novulo.com/t/how-to-add-a-new-scheduled-task-geplande-taak/196) to delete Answer records.

1. First decide which answers are linked to the question(s) you want to delete: go to the Overviews (1) \> Answers grid (2) \> add a column with id of the linked question (3):  

2. Then make sure you have a process for deleting records: Settings (1) \> process action definitions (2) \> add a new \> choose a process “delete\_recordscontrollercomponent” (3) \> save and determine params and return values (4) \> they must be visible after the determonation:  

3. Then create a scheduled task: Settings \> scheduled tasks (1) \> add a new \> check the scheduling service (2) \> set a schedule (3) \> go to the process (4):  

4. Inside the process (1) \> set a value (process) to the “Delete helper” (delete process) you have just defined (2) \> update parameters (3):  

5. Check the process arguments: set which records you want to delete (1) \> in my example I wanted to delete answers related to the questions with the id = 3 (2) \> set interactive = false (3) \> set auto\_delete\_all\_casccades = true (4):  

6. Go back to the scheduled task \> click on the “Register” button (1) \> as soon as 2 new buttons will appear (“Deregister” and “Run now”) \> click on the “Run now” (2):  

7. Check the Anwers grid \> the answer records you filtered in the scheduled task must be removed.

8. Now you can go back to the Questions grid and delete a question with id you used for filtering answers.

If you want to delete all questions \> you need to delete all answers where the question is not null. Frequently used expressions (for filtering too) are here:  
[Expressions: Frequently Used Functions](https://community.novulo.com/t/expressions-frequently-used-functions/324)

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