Deleting a Process

The process modeller allows you to delete a deployed process so that it is no longer available to use by the workflow engine.

Select the deployed process that you'd like to delete and press the "Delete process" toolbar button. This displays a confirmation message that warns you of any active running instances.

Deleting Instances

When you delete a process, all running and all historic instances will be deleted too.

Deleting a process that includes a call activity which starts another process will also delete any instances of the target/child process.

Scheduled Task

The Scheduled Tasks section lets you set up a task that will delete terminated instances. The default settings delete any closed instances older than 365 days from when the task runs. 

When the task runs a history is logged in the platform's History service, recording the number of instances deleted. This history has a "labela" value of "Workflow". For example:

{
    "labela": "Workflow",
    "labelb": "1173-1551-6349-6855",
    "labelc": null,
    "labeld": null,
    "labele": null,
    "created": 1548802808323,
    "lastupdated": 1548802808323,
    "id": "0555e386-25f2-4bc8-a202-3fb4049941d3",
    "sealed": false,
    "subject": null,
    "events": [{
        "pos": [1, 1],
        "event": {
            "description": "13 records older than 365 days purged.",
            "event": "PURGEPROCESSINSTANCES"
        },
        "fpos": [1, 1],
        "timestamp": 1548802808323
    }]
}