Delete fhiroperation in transaction bundle is not working correctly

Question

When we try multiple transaction of delete through below scenario as follow:

1)Delete through ID:

DELETE Patient/1234

Output : Success

2)Delete through identifier:

DELETE Patient?identifier=system|value

Output: Below error message is shown on the response page

 "issue": [
        {
            "severity": "error",
            "code": "invalid",
            "diagnostics": "Requested operation 'Patient?identifier=437486' is not supported using DELETE."
        }

Answer 1

@Thadani, Sanjay (Cognizant) Thanks for reaching out. The FHIR service currently doesn't support conditional delete as part of transaction bundles. I do see this is not mentioned in our documentation, which is a gap on our end. I will pass on the feedback to our docs team about adding this note in our documentation.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused. you can use batch bundles instead of transaction bundles that supports conditional delete.

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