Delete all active instances

RE: Delete all active instances

ahmedk927042 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:15:17 GMT

Not sure if this is resolved or no. other than the provided solutions, there is another way to clean all of the process instances from the monitoring tab -> Process Activity. There will be a grey header will be shown once you choose all of instances in the first page that will ask if you want to apply the same action on all of the process instances that have the same applied criteria. Here is a screenshot for your reference

RE: Delete all active instances

Eliot Gerson — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:53:06 GMT

In that case, the answer is to set the cleanup settings for your process appropriately. It's easy to automate the cleanup of expected processes by choosing your desired behavior in the data maintenance tab https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.2/process-model-object.html#data-management-tab . Simply set your processes to automatically get cleaned up on your desired cadence, and you shouldn't need any manual intervention.

RE: Delete all active instances

sandeepd — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:36:05 GMT

Hi Anu,
Long back I have created workflow with the help to few Smart service for deleting process Instances. You need to first get all the Process Instance Id and those instance Ids you need to pass to delete Process Smart Service.
There are few smart services available :
community.appian.com/.../process-management-services
community.appian.com/.../process-history
community.appian.com/.../process-sizing-report-smart-services
community.appian.com/.../process-model-utilities
community.appian.com/.../process-model-details

Thanks,
Sandeep

RE: Delete all active instances

Anupriya Sathyamoorthy — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:16:58 GMT

Hi Anu,

To cancel/ delete processes in bulk, we can use Cancel Processes/ Delete Processes smart service. These are custom plug-ins available under process management services, please take a look at this link: https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/process-management-services

Please let me know if you have any queries.

RE: Delete all active instances

Anu — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:30:40 GMT

Since we run test scripts everyday , it creates lot of instances and we end up with memory issues . Everyday deleting from designer manually is not feasible . I also tried implementing smart service Process Management(Delete Processes) but it doesn't seems to be working . Any help here would be greatly appreciated .

RE: Delete all active instances

Eliot Gerson — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:28:52 GMT

I'd be really curious to know what your reasons are for avoiding cleanup that way. With that approach, you can delete up to 10,000 instances at a time. How many instances are you needing to delete? Is there a different reason that the approach wouldn't work for you?

RE: Delete all active instances

Anu — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:34:44 GMT

Yes , other than going to designer and selecting manually . Is there any other way to delete all instances ?

RE: Delete all active instances

ChristineLHutchison — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:20:42 GMT

Do you mean other than going into Designer > Monitoring > select instances > click delete?

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.2/monitoring_view.html#bulk-operations