How to remove a field in the product type without deleteing the whole table? [#2544994]

I have created two product types both product types share some of the fields. However one of the product types no long needs this field. When i try to delete it from manage fields I am afraid it will delete the entire field table?

Is there away around this?

For example just to clarify


Product Type  |         A        |       B        |
field_torque    |      100       |      20       |

Now, Product Type B, no longer needs field_torque. When i try to remove field_torque. Message "If you have any content left in this field, it will be lost. This action cannot be undone." The reason I want to remove field_torque from Product Type B is so people don't accidentally put in value. I don't want to completely delete field_torque because Product A still needs it.

Thanks in advance.

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Comment #1

torgosPizza

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CreditAttribution: torgosPizza as a volunteer commented 14 September 2015 at 21:45

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If you have a field that is shared by multiple product types, deleting the field from one of the product types will only remove the field and its data from that product type.

If you only had one product type, then you may have reason to worry, as deleting the sole instance of that field can result in removal of the entire field from the system.

So I'm pretty sure you can just delete the field from the product that you don't need it on anymore. As always take a backup of your database just in case.