Removes projects and tasks that have been completed for the designated periods of time. This cleaner can also be run by the general cleaner as part of garbage collection.
Allowing completed projects and tasks to remain in the system can be a useful resource for project managers. However, they can quickly consume a large chunk of the database space and, after a period of time, are no longer that useful. The projects cleaner removes any project for which tasks were all completed at least 15 days ago. It then goes through all of the tasks and removes any task which was completed at least 15 days ago. Both of these time intervals can be adjusted.
Cleaner Settings
You can customize the duration for the cleaner task, and the amount of time you want to keep completed projects and tasks in your database.
- Limit run time duration
- Default = unchecked
- Set the amount of time that the cleaner will run, if experience shows that it takes a long time, or interferes with system performance. The next time it runs it will pick up where it left off.
- Number of days project must be complete before deletion
- Default = 15
- Sets the number of days that completed projects will be saved in the database.
- Number of days tasks associated with incomplete projects must be complete before deletion
- Default = 15
- Sets the number of days that completed tasks will be saved in the database, even if the project is incomplete.
Note: WorldServer only removes cancelled or outdated tasks that have been excluded from cost computation. Any tasks that are flagged for inclusion in costing are not deleted until the project itself is garbage collected.
Cleaner Schedule
- Run with General Cleaner
- Use the same schedule for the projects cleaner as for the general cleaner. With this option, the date and time controls are not separately available.
- Set custom dates and times
- Specify the schedule for the projects cleaner separately. By default, this schedule is slightly offset from the general cleaner schedule
Date and Time Selection
Set custom dates and times for the cleaner with the option buttons and check boxes on the page.
- Date(s)
- The schedule of the cleaner by day, either day of the week, or specific date in a specific month.
- Time(s)
- The schedule of the cleaner by time of day, available in 15 minute intervals.