The Scenario
The workspace handover is next week. The outgoing engineer put together a deprecation list before their last day — nine transformation IDs in an Excel column, labeled "safe to delete." The incoming team lead confirmed the list is accurate. The only thing left is to actually delete the transformations.
The column has been sitting in the workbook for three days. No one wants to be the person who deletes nine things in a production workspace by hand and misses one.
The bad version:
- Copy the first ID from column A, open the RudderStack Transformations dashboard, search for it or scroll to find it, click the transformation, find the delete option, confirm the deletion.
- Go back to the workbook, copy the next ID, switch back to RudderStack, repeat.
- Reach transformation six and realize the dashboard search doesn't accept raw IDs — you have to find it by name, verify the ID matches, then delete.
Nine deletions done carefully is still nine opportunities for window confusion, misidentification, or skipping a row. This belongs to the handover checklist, not a separate task someone has to carve out 40 minutes for.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the transformation IDs from your workbook, sends the delete request to RudderStack for each one, and writes a confirmation back into the workbook.
For every transformation_id in column A of my Excel sheet, delete the RudderStack transformation and record the result in column B so I can confirm all 9 were removed.
What You Get
- Each transformation ID in column A is sent to the RudderStack delete endpoint
- Column B: 'deleted' for each successful deletion, or the exact error message if the delete fails (not found, already deleted, permission issue)
- The workbook becomes the deletion log — you can hand it to the incoming team as confirmation
- No IDs are skipped silently
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some IDs were already deleted in an earlier cleanup — don't error on those, just write 'already gone'
For each transformation ID in column A, attempt to delete it from RudderStack. If the deletion succeeds, write 'deleted' to column B. If RudderStack returns a 404 or 'not found' error, write 'already gone' to column B. For any other error, write the error message.
The list includes a mix of transformation IDs and library IDs — column C indicates which type
For each row where column C is 'transformation', delete the RudderStack transformation whose ID is in column A and write the result to column B. For rows where column C is 'library', delete the RudderStack library whose ID is in column A and write the result to column B. Skip any rows where column C is blank.
Before deleting, verify each ID exists in RudderStack and confirm the name matches column D
For each transformation ID in column A, fetch the transformation from RudderStack and check that its name matches the value in column D. If the names match, delete the transformation and write 'deleted' to column B. If the names don't match, write 'NAME MISMATCH — skipped' to column B and do not delete.
Full handover cleanup in one pass — verify, delete, log names and deletion timestamps
For each transformation ID in column A, fetch the transformation to confirm it exists and retrieve its name. Write the name to column C. If the transformation exists, delete it and write 'deleted' to column B and the current date and time to column D. If it doesn't exist, write 'not found' to column B and leave column D blank.
The pattern: add the verification and logging to the delete instruction so the resulting workbook is the handover record, not just a to-do list with checkmarks.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the deprecation list workbook from the workspace handover, then ask it to delete the listed RudderStack transformations and write the confirmation back into column B. For building the inventory that fed this list, see Export All RudderStack Transformations Into an Excel workbook for Auditing and the full RudderStack Transformation overview.