Delete a record

To delete a record, use an HTTP DELETE method with the records API endpoint specifying the database name, layout, and record ID.

HTTP method

DELETE

URL

/fmi/data/version/databases/database-name/layouts/layout-name/records/record-id

version – the FileMaker Data API version requested can use v1, v2, or vLatest

database-name – the name of the hosted database

layout-name – the name of the layout to use as the context for deleting the record

record-id – the record ID of the record to delete

Other optional URL parameters:

HTTP header

Authorization: Bearer session-token, where session-token is the unique X-FM-Data-Access-Token value for the database session
Parameters None
Response

An empty response body, and a messages array showing an error code of 0.

For example:

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{
  "response": {},
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": "0",
      "message": "OK"
    }
  ]
}

See Error responses.