Purging Notifications

Use the Purge Notifications page to purge notifications system wide. Purging notification data at regular intervals improves system performance.

The Purge Notifications page enables you to purge the data based on the selected options. You can also use this page to schedule the purge process or set the recurrence of the process. When notifications are purged, the data is deleted from the notification table. Optionally, you can also select to purge data from the archive table.

Important:

You cannot retrieve purged data.

Navigation:

PeopleTools, and then Notifications, and then Purge Notifications

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Purge Notifications page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Field or Control	Description
Purge Duration	Select a time duration to purge notification data: Custom Date — When you select this option, the Custom Date Range is displayed where you can specify a date range. Older than 1 Day Older than 30 Days Older than 365 Days Older than 7 Days
Custom Date Range	Set the period to purge data.
Notification Status	Select one or more notification statuses to purge: Dismissed — Users can dismiss alert notifications so that they no longer appear in the Notification window. However, they are still viewable on the View All Notifications page. New — A notification is considered new until the user opens the Notification window, and then the notification becomes unread. Read — A notification is considered read if the user clicks on the notification within the Notification window. Unread — A notification is considered unread until the user clicks the notification within the Notification window, and then the notification becomes read.
Notification Type	Select one or more notification types to purge: Actions Alerts Sections - Sections refer to the ACK notification category that application developers can use to make notifications available as a data source for a section template.
Functional Category	Select a specific functional-category notification for purging. Note: If no functional category is selected, notifications in all functional categories will be purged.
Notification Name	Select a specific notification for purging. Note: If no notification is selected, all notifications will be purged.
Purge Archived Notifications	Select this option to also purge notifications from the archive table (PSPTPN_ARCHIVE).
Run	Select the Run button to display the Process Scheduler Request page where you can schedule the purge process and set the recurrence of the process, if required. For more information, see Process Scheduler: Scheduling Process Requests and Process Scheduler: Defining Recurrence Definitions.