Delete a workspace work item property

DELETE/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/work-item-properties/{pk}/

Remove a property from the workspace catalog. The delete is soft and the response is 204 with an empty body.

This is the wide blast radius option: the property leaves every project and work item type it reached, unlike detaching it from a single type, which only affects that one type.

Retire before you delete

If the property has been collecting values, PATCH it with is_active: false first. The definition stays addressable while you migrate, and you can reverse the decision with a single field. Deleting is the move for a property created by mistake.

Wrong mode is a 409, not a 404

If the workspace manages work item types at the project level, this route returns 409 with the code work_item_types_managed_at_project. Delete the property on the project-level resource instead. See Work item type modes.

Path Parameters

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs — in https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The property's id.

Response shaping

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Unrequested keys are omitted from the response, not returned as null, so absent means "not requested" and null means "actually null". id always comes back whether or not you name it.

Pass all for every requestable field. An unknown name is a 400 that lists the valid set and suggests the closest match, so a typo can't silently cost you the saving.

Requestable here: created_at, default_value, description, display_name, external_id, external_source, id, is_active, is_multi, is_required, logo_props, name, options, property_type, relation_type, settings, validation_rules.

See Sparse fields.

Scopes

workspaces.work_item_properties:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	invalid_request	The request failed validation — most often a pk that isn't a valid UUID.
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
402	payment_required	The feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan, or is switched off.
403	forbidden	Your role or token scope can't write workspace work item properties.
404	not_found	No such workspace or property, or it's outside your tenant.
406	not_acceptable	The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409	conflict	This workspace manages work item types at the project level.
413	payload_too_large	The request body is over the size limit.
415	unsupported_media_type	The Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429	rate_limited	Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.

Delete a workspace property

curl -X DELETE \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-properties/a7e3f1d0-5c92-4b68-8f31-2d4a6b9e0c15/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.delete(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-properties/a7e3f1d0-5c92-4b68-8f31-2d4a6b9e0c15/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
)
print(response.status_code)

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-properties/a7e3f1d0-5c92-4b68-8f31-2d4a6b9e0c15/",
  {
    method: "DELETE",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
    },
  },
);
console.log(response.status);

Response204

No content

Response409

{
  "type": "conflict",
  "code": "work_item_types_managed_at_project",
  "detail": "This workspace manages work item types at the project level. Use the project-level endpoint instead."
}

Deleting the property takes its scoping with it

A property's contexts and options are mounted underneath it. Once the property is gone, those sub-resources are no longer addressable — GETs under the deleted property_id return 404 not_found.