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Automatically Deleting Jobs

The system automatically deletes a job when the class properties for the job determine that it should be deleted. You can use this feature to prevent data from piling up, and to delete groups of jobs.

If you create a schedule for a class, the system only checks for jobs to purge when the schedule activates. See Scheduling Purges for information on how to schedule purge activity.

To make sure a job is deleted when you want it to be, check the following settings before you launch or schedule the job:

  1. Set the deletion properties of one or more of your classes to allow the system to delete the jobs after a certain number of days or after a certain number of jobs have accumulated, or both.

  2. Set the Class property of the project you are working with to an appropriate class.

If you generate a number of jobs and then want to delete them, you can temporarily change the deletion properties of the relevant class. Or you can select multiple builds on the Completed tab and delete them (click the check box next to each job to select it, then click the Purge button.

For example, if you generated many Production jobs on the previous day, you would use the following process to delete them:

  1. Note the current settings for the Production class.

  2. Change the Days property of the Production Class to 1, then click the Save Class button. After a 15 minute delay, the system begins deleting jobs that are older than one day.

  3. When the jobs are deleted, change the properties of the Production Class back to their original setting.

Related concepts
Scheduling Jobs
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