Delete a form that uses an Express Entity Object and the Express Object gets deleted too

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I've been playing around with Express today in version 8.3.2.

After creating an object, adding some forms to it, adding some attributes, etc. I then go to the front end of the website. I then add a Form Block, I choose Express Entity Form and then place on the page. It looks great! Trouble is, if I delete that form block the entire Express object and all the work I did setting it up is completely deleted in the dashboard - completely! This doesn't seem like this would be expected behavior.

Am I missing something?

stephendmalloy
 
stephendmalloy replied on at Permalink Reply
stephendmalloy
Okay so this might be me just not testing enough :/ It appears that if you add some actual data the Express object is not deleted. If no data exists, then the Express object is deleted.
plschneide replied on at Permalink Reply
plschneide
I ran into this same problem. I had a page that had a form. I duplicated that page a few times and realized oh they were all tied to the same form (or so it seemed). I removed the form from the page(s) and then added new forms.

When I goto the data objects there are a bunch of the "forms/entities" there that aren't being used anywhere. Not a huge problem - but a mess and confusing. Ideas on how to get rid of the unused ones - they are tied to forms but the forms aren't associated with any page.
deepsoular replied on at Permalink Reply
Hey!

I just had this same issue- I logged in today to find an express object I created yesterday completely missing.

The only thing I did was to check it with a form and then deleted the form. I guess based on what you are saying, that action somehow deleted the object?

This is kind of weird considering I cant actually find a way to delete any objects let alone have one get deleted by accident somehow.
deepsoular replied on at Permalink Reply
Yup!

Confirmed it- created a new form, added an express object that was developed with no entries,
when I deleted the form off the page the object dissappeared.

I need to solve this before I can move forward at all so anyone who can assit Id be grateful.

Thanks
oconcms replied on at Permalink Reply
I dont have a backup of the db for yesterday and the my client entered tons of entries and now on removing the form block it deleted the whole express data object. with out a mysql back up can i get that back? This is going to cost me much for loosing this data in this fashion. please help