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

hajii over 9 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 9 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 Cesar Machuca
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over 9 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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