Allow cleaning up events and properties

[macobo]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

As a team accumulates data, they will have events/properties that are no longer in use that clutter their app.

Example from our team:

Describe the solution you'd like

Under event/properties stats allow 'hiding' events/properties from view.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively, go the route of "verified" events/properties (as He@p) does - show those first. See also https://help.heap.io/category/heap-administration/data-governance/

Additional context

Note: Existing reports, etc should still work well even with 'removed' events/properties.

Related: #7126

Thank you for your feature request – we love each and every one!

[paolodamico]

@mariusandra @clarkus wdyt about prioritizing this as we work on improving the taxonomic filter?

[mariusandra]

Seems very related

[timgl]

Make sure this is a paid feature by default please!

Also +1 for having 'verified' properties, would probably be more helpful

[joethreepwood]

I'll link to my feedback on this topic here.

Part of the issue for me is that there are SO many properties and they basically all lack descriptions and there's no way to easily jump from a query to the event list.

A solution which would go some way to addressing my issue would be to have a way to make that jump easily, or else to surface some event property details (e.g. the description) as a tooltip or on hover.

[paolodamico]

• Thanks @joethreepwood, I'll reply in the main issue (WIP Special Migrations API (#7054 pt. 5) #7448)
• @timgl I'm particularly curious about the verified concept, any reason in particular you thought of it? In theory you could easily achieve this using tags, initially I thought we could nudge users to do this via placeholders & suggestions, but now I'm thinking users are not finding this use case very organically.

[macobo]

Re verification, this came up as a usecase at Heap: https://help.heap.io/define-analyze/data-management/creating-and-managing-event.

Note that for this feature it would be great if we didn't distinguish between actions and events :)

[macobo]

Note: This came up as feedback from a paying client. https://posthogusers.slack.com/archives/G01J29T1F6W/p1641986184005100

cc @alexkim205 @paolodamico - is this in scope for the upcoming taxonomy refactor?

[alexkim205]

Yup this is definitely in the scope of taxonomy. We're tracking this somewhere else too, but assigning to myself so I dont lose it later