Is there a way to delete a process and all its sub-procs upon completion? In

hajii over 10 years ago

Is there a way to *delete* a process and all its sub-procs upon completion? In 7.6, under the main process model's Data Management tab if I set the Automatic Process Clean-up to "Delete processes 0 days after..." then the process instance gets deleted on completion, however its sub-procs stay around (as completed of course). How to get its sub-procs deleted too (without changing their Data Mangement setting)? That's what Delete does in the process dashboard, but the sub-procs aren't deleted through the Data Mangement tab setting....

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0 Cesar Machuca
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over 10 years ago

For the sub processes you also need to configure the auto-deletion, it is not possible to delete via the auto-deletion of the parent, but there are two important things to have in mind:

1) Take care not to remove data needed by a parent process before that process completes or before all reporting requirements are met.

2) You might need to redesign the sub-process so that all data is passed back to the parent process, if you need to archive or delete the sub-process on a different schedule than the parent-process.
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0 hajii over 10 years ago

How does the "Delete" on the designer's Processes dashboard gets it done? It deletes all the subp's of the selected process regardless of their data mgmt setting.
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