Data, privacy and trust

Reset a workspace

What it destroys, what it keeps, and when it is the right tool.

About 4 minutes

Reset clears a workspace's work and data while keeping the workspace itself.

Take an export first. Reset is not undoable, and "I thought it only cleared test data" is not a recoverable position.

When it is right

  • A workspace you used to trial something and now want to use properly.
  • A demo workspace between demos.
  • A genuine fresh start where a new workspace would lose settings you want to keep.

When it is not

  • To clear one bad import — delete those records instead.
  • To fix something confusing. Reset is not a repair tool, and you will lose everything to avoid diagnosing one thing.

Steps

  1. Export first.
  2. Open workspace settings and choose reset.
  3. Read exactly what it lists as being cleared.
  4. Confirm.

You're done when the workspace is empty and you still hold the export.

Gotchas

  • Reset is not delete. The workspace, its members and its plan remain.
  • It is not reversible from inside the product. Your export is the only way back.

Checked against

  • endpoints/workspace/reset_POST.ts