Credit where credit is due: this is not my idea, but it's brilliant. The scenario is that a report has been created but now has to be deleted. Normally I would go through the fields in the report, deleting them one after the other. This normally isn't problematic; the problems arise primarily when a report based on a standard report has to be deleted, as there may be translations of various fields' captions.
Someone suggested creating an upgrade where the type of event is DELENT. I very rarely work with upgrades as I nearly always develop on the target machine, but one of my clients uses it all the time. As it happens, I copied a report then discovered that the original report showed the fields that I wanted (or more accurately, didn't show the fields that I didn't want), so the copy was extraneous and could be deleted. I did this in my usual manner, then read about this tip.
The screen shot below shows my manual deletion of the report in the shape of an upgrade.
Basically all one needs to do to delete a report is to create a new upgrade, then in the sub-form instead of choosing lines as one normally does, one manually enters the event DELENT, then writes the name of the report to be deleted (TEKN_KIYUT_FAMZIVNT in this case) and the type of entity (R). Presumably one then runs the upgrade and the report gets deleted.
The original tip was about deleting a form, something that I very rarely need. In this case, the entity type would be F. This tip should also be useful in deleting an entire procedure - in this case, the entity type would be P.
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