When you are no longer using a business process or content derived from it, you should delete the associated content. Two API methods are provided in the atg.markers.bp.BusinessProcessManager class for business process content deletion. The BusinessProcessManager has access to both the individual RepositoryItems involved in the business process as well as the governing business process itself so you can delete business process content from both contexts:

Both methods take arguments

(pBusinessProcessName, pBusinessProcessStage)

where pBusinessProcessName is the name of a business process and pBusinessProcessStage is a business process stage. See atg.markers.bp.BusinessProcessManager in the ATG Platform API Reference for more information.

RepositoryItem-Based Deletion

To delete business process content from a specific RepositoryItem, use removeBusinessProcessStage. For example, the following call would remove content provided to a RepositoryItem by StageA of a business process called MyBusinessProcess:

removeBusinessProcessStage("MyBusinessProcess","StageA")

It’s also possible to remove content provided by all stages of MyBusinessProcess from a particular RepositoryItem using this call:

removeBusinessProcessStage("MyBusinessProcess",
"MarkerConstants.ANY_VALUE")

Business Process-Based Deletion

Alternatively, you can approach business process content deletion from the perspective of the business process. You can delete content associated with stages from a given business process on every affected RepositoryItem. The BusinessProcessManager refers to the BusinessProcessConfiguration.markedItemType property to assist in deleting business process content using this method.

Eliminate content added by a particular stage, such as StageB of MyBusinessProcess, from all RepositoryItems, as follows:

deleteBusinessProcessMarkers("MyBusinessProcess","StageB")

To delete content supplied by all stages of MyBusinessProcess from all RepositoryItems, use this code:

deleteBusinessProcessMarkers("MyBusinessProcess",
"MarkerConstants.ANY_VALUE")