Purging and Inactivating Content

Purge/Inactivate Page

EPPCM_PRG_RUN

Purge content or folders, inactivate content, unpublish content, or delete versions from the Content Management system.

Purge/Inactivate - Preview Selection Page

EPPCM_PRG_VIEW

Preview items to be purged or inactivated.

Process Scheduler Request

PRCSRQSTDLG

Specify process variables.

Run Control ID

Displays the run control ID for the purge/inactive process.

Report Manager

Click to access the Report Manager module to view report results.

Process Monitor

Click to access the Process Monitor to view the status of job requests.

Preview

Click to view the pieces of content, folders, published menu items, and pagelet definitions that have been selected and what action will be performed on them on the Purge/Inactive - Preview Selection page.

See Purge/Inactivate - Preview Selection Page.

Run

Click to access the Process Request page, where you can start the Application Engine process to purge or inactivate content or folders.

See PeopleTools: System and Server Administration, “Submitting and Scheduling Process Requests.”

Feature

Select a feature from the drop-down list box to perform. The available features are:

• Categorized Content

• Collaborative Workspaces

• Managed Content

• News Publications

Action

These are the available actions:

• Delete Past Versions deletes unused versions.

  Only the last approved version and any successive versions are retained. This option is available only for features that enable content versions and excludes the following items: content without an approved version, content without any versions prior to the last approved version, and content that did not originate in the selected feature.

  Folders are not included in this action.

• Set Inactive Date updates the selected content to the date specified in the Inactive Date field.

  A blank Inactive Date field clears the inactive date of the selected content. The Set Inactive Date action excludes content that did not originate in the selected feature.

• Purge Items deletes the content, folders, or both from the system.

  The Purge Items action excludes:

  • Folders that do not allow deletes.

  • Content in folders that do not allow deletes, including:

    Any published content (and the parent folder path) when the Include Published Content option is not selected or is not available for the feature.

    Folders listed in a feature definition as a one-top folder or as a share folder.

    All folders when the Folder Cascade option is set to Only Content.

• Unpublish Content changes the publish status of the content location from published to pending (or blank).

  The Unpublish Content action is available only for features that publish within the Content Management system.

Include Published Content

This field appears if the Action field is set to Purge Items.

Select this option to include published content in the action.

Inactive Date

This field appears if the Action field is set to Inactive Date.

Select a date to use as the date that the content is considered inactive.

Leaving this field blank creates a blank inactive date for the content.

Selection

Select whether the specified action should be performed on Content or on a Folder.

When you select the Folder option, this selection becomes your starting folder.

Site Name

This field appears if the Folder option is selected.

Select the name of the site if you select to purge folders.

Folder

This field appears if the Folder option is selected.

Select the folder name and ID if you are purging folders.

Folder Selection Options

Select the Only Direct Content Children option if the content is published in more than one location. This action is performed only on the children content directly under the folder.

Select the Cascade to All Child Items option to perform action on child folder and child content.

Folder Cascade Options

This section appears if the Cascade to All Child Items option is selected. The available options are:

• Only Content

  In the folder that you have selected, only the content is acted upon and not the folders.

• Folders and Content

  Enables you to select the folders and the content.

• Purge Selected Folder

  Select to purge the folder.