The Scenario
The workspace admin got flagged in a Fibery notification three times this week. Tasks that should have been closed six months ago are still sitting as "Open" in the 'Engineering/Task' database. Nobody assigned to them. No parent project. No comments in a year. They were never properly closed when the project wound down, and now they're polluting every "open task" query anyone runs.
She put together an Excel workbook last Tuesday. Sixty UUIDs in column A — entities she'd already verified were safe to delete. She sent it to the previous admin to action. He's no longer at the company.
The bad version:
- Copy the first UUID from column A. Open Fibery. Navigate to the entity. Verify it's the right one. Click the three-dot menu. Find the delete option. Confirm the deletion. Go back to the workbook.
- After 15 deletions, Fibery's search-by-ID isn't surfacing results the way you expected. You switch to navigating via the URL. Each URL requires the entity type path before the ID. Add that to the workflow.
- By deletion 30, you've been at this for 90 minutes. You have 30 left. You also have an audit prep meeting at 2 PM that you haven't reviewed materials for.
Workspace hygiene matters. It affects every report anyone runs on this data. But nobody budgeted a half-day to click through 60 entity deletions.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook and through its built-in Fibery integration it can bulk-delete Fibery entities by reading their UUIDs from a column — no UI navigation, no URL construction, no one-at-a-time clicking.
Read all UUIDs in column A of my workbook and permanently delete each corresponding Fibery entity of type 'Engineering/Task' — write 'Deleted' or the error message into column B for each row
What You Get
- All 60 entities deleted in one pass.
- Column B filled with the result for each row — "Deleted" for successes, the specific error (e.g., "Not found" or "Permission denied") for failures.
- No silent skips. If an entity ID doesn't match or the deletion fails, you see it.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some UUIDs in the workbook may not exist in Fibery anymore — already deleted by someone else
Read all UUIDs in column A — attempt to delete each as a Fibery 'Engineering/Task' entity — write 'Deleted', 'Already deleted', or the error message into column B
You want to delete entities across two different Fibery types in the same workbook
Read UUIDs from column A and entity type from column B — delete each Fibery entity using the type specified in column B — write the result into column C
Confirm existence before deleting — write a preview first
Read all UUIDs in column A — fetch the title and status of each Fibery 'Engineering/Task' entity and write them into columns B and C as a preview, but do not delete yet
Full validate, filter, and delete in one shot
Read all UUIDs in column A — fetch each Fibery 'Engineering/Task' entity and check that status is 'Open' and there are no comments — delete only entities that pass both checks, write 'Deleted', 'Skipped (has comments)', or 'Skipped (not open)' into column B
One prompt handles the validation logic and the deletion. Column B tells you exactly what happened to every row.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook that holds a list of Fibery entity UUIDs marked for cleanup, then ask it to run the bulk deletion. For related tasks, see how to export Fibery entities to a workbook before cleanup or bulk-update entity fields without deleting.