From the course: Microsoft PowerApps: Using the Common Data Service

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- [Instructor] Sometimes I create a field and immediately I think, nope, I want to redo that. I wouldn't do it because the display name because I can modify that on the fly but perhaps I chose the wrong data type or the name isn't going to work for me. It's too similar to a name in another entity we use a lot. If I want to delete a field right away before I've done anything more with it, I can usually do that. For example, if I looked at the model field, which we haven't done anything with and I chose to delete this, it would allow me to delete this field. It will check for dependencies and this is the point of this movie. What is it looking for? Well, it's looking for this field being used somewhere else. For this field being used, for example, in a calculation someplace in this entity or its already used in a view or we've already placed it in a form. But we actually didn't use model anywhere and, therefore, when it's all done checking for dependencies, PowerApp should tell me that…

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