A Warning if You're Deleting Credentials in Use

Feature Requests
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Stoping myself from deleting production creds:

I have many credentials in my n8n account.

While I try to name everything well, I try to clean out creds I’m not using every once in a while and sometimes delete credentials that are being used and there is no warning until workflows fail.

Proposed Solution

When deleting a credential it could come up with a confirmation screen showing all of the workflows it’s used in, sorted with activated on the top and deactivated on the bottom.

Really I would be ok with it not being possible to delete credentials without removing from workflows first, but that might be more controversial.

Are you willing to work on this?

Sure thing as long as it’s willing to be added and I get community feedback first

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Wait… are you suggesting we allow you to delete credentials that are currently in use? That sounds like something we should change, Having a list in a notification is probably over the top but having a way to filter to see what it is being used in would be great along with blocking a delete if the credential is in use.

update: Just tested and I am very surprised, We just show a message to say it might break workflows that use it. You have my vote.

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What makes it even worse is that dialog shows even if the creds are not used in any workflows at all which makes that confirmation farily pointless

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That will be great to have. Especially if the creds node could have a section with all workflows it is used in.

I use a postgres query in the n8n db to get all workflows that uses the desired credentials :sweat_smile: