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.

Steps

1. Retrieve the current list of checklist items converted from JSON to the oChecklistItem structure.

   oChecklistItem[] items = fromJson(DoD);

2. Remove the targeted items from the collection.

   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; } }

3. Update the custom field by passing it the newly created collection converted to JSON.

   DoD = toJson(items);

Example

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