Deleting items from checklists using SIL

You may want to remove some items from a checklist, but not all of them. This can be useful to filter out unnecessary items in a checklist.

To remove all items or reset a checklist, see Updating checklists with new sets of items using SIL instead.

Steps

Retrieve the current list of checklist items converted from JSON to the oChecklistItem structure.
CODE
```
oChecklistItem[] items = fromJson(DoD);
```

Remove the targeted items from the collection.

CODE

for(oChecklistItem item in items) {
    // We only keep items that are named "Code reviewed" or are checked
    if (item.name != "Code reviewed" && !item.checked) {
        items -= item;
    }
}

Update the custom field by passing it the newly created collection converted to JSON.
CODE
```
DoD = toJson(items);
```

Example

Here is a full example that can be used to remove all items with the “Not Applicable” status:

CODE

// Retrieve the items in a Structure array to facilitate manipulations
oChecklistItem[] items = fromJson(DoD);

for(oChecklistItem item in items) {
    // Remove all items whose status is "Not Applicable"
    if (item.statusId == "notApplicable") {
        items -= item;
    }
}

// Update the checklist with its new values
DoD = toJson(items);