Pruning events

Event pruning deletes duplicate analytic events so that only events that have service requests or work tasks associated with them are saved. You can set options and schedule event pruning or you can view the results of previous event pruning jobs.

1. To access the event pruning function, click Sustainability > Set Up > Analytics > Event Pruning.
2. Optional: You can click an existing event pruning schedule to view or edit the settings or to set the status to Scheduled or UnScheduled. You can view the results of the last scheduled event pruning process in the Purge History section.
3. To create a new event pruning schedule, click Add.
4. In the General section, enter a name and description for the schedule.
5. In the Purge Schedule section, click the calendar icon to set the amount of time that the schedule will purge events older than.
6. To purge only events with a status of Possible Duplicate, select Purge Only Duplicate Events?.
7. Set the frequency for event pruning as the Recurrence Pattern Type.
8. Set the start date for the schedule.
9. Click Create.
10. Open the event pruning schedule and click Schedule to activate the event pruning schedule.

Results

The event pruning job will now run as scheduled. If you want to cancel future runs, open the event pruning schedule and click UnSchedule.