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How do I bulk remove DID's?

How do I bulk remove DIDs?


1. On the administrator’s portal, navigate to Dial Planning -> Dial Translations




2. At the bottom of the list of Dial Translations, click on Export:


3. Leave the domain as * and click the radio button for Rules, then Select Domain:




4. On the following screen (also called Dial Translation) select DID Table from the dropdown list and click Start Export.  This will export ALL DIDs for ALL domains:



This will create a CSV file with all DIDs:


5. Open the file in Excel. Save the file as a CSV named OldDIDs.csv.

6. Delete any DIDs that you do NOT want to move.

7. Save the file as a CSV named RemoveDIDs.csv.


IMPORTANT: At this point, open the files in a plain text program (Notepad or WordPad, NOT Excel) to make sure that Excel did not reformat the data.  The entries should be regular text divided by commas - note the comma between each value:



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The files should NOT look like this:




8. Navigate back to Dial Planning -> Dial Translations




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9. At the bottom of the list of Dial Translations, click on Import:


10. Choose the file RemoveDIDs.csv, click the Yes radio button for Purge and the Rules radio button for Import Type. This will delete the DIDs from the old domain. Click Start Import:




11. Navigate back to Dial Planning -> Dial Translations




12. Select DID table from the list of Dial Translations:




13. Check that the DIDs have been removed.


Note:  Make sure you save the OldDIDs.csv and RemoveDIDs.csv files - you can always “undo” the process if necessary.


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