You use the clear versions tool to clear the version history
of an item.
Procedure
- Log in to the portal as an administrator.
- Open the following URL in the browser and specify details
of what history details to clear:
http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/myconnect?MOD=ClearVersions&day=date&month=month&year=year&keep=number_of_entries&restrictOn=item_type&library=library_name&fix=true&preserve_dates=true
- day, month, and year
- The version history is cleared before the date specified in the
day, month, and year parameters. If no date is specified, then the
date defaults to one year before the current date.
- keep
- Specify the minimum number of history versions to keep. For example,
if a version has not been created for over a year, and you specify
to clear all versions more than a year old, but choose to keep the
last five versions, all versions are cleared except for the last five
versions even though they are over a year old. If a number is not
specified, then the minimum number of versions to keep defaults to
10.
- restrictOn
- Select the item types to run the clear history tool against. If
no item types are specified, all item types are processed. Use the
following parameters for each item-type:
- Content
- Folder
- Project
- PresentationTemplate
- AuthoringTemplate
- ContentTemplate
- SiteAreaTemplate
- Taxonomy
- Category
- SiteArea
- Workflow
- WorkflowStage
- WorkflowAction
- Cmpnt for components
- library
- Enter a library name. If the library parameter
is omitted, the default library that is configured in the WCM WCMConfigService service by using the WebSphere® Integrated Solutions Console.
To run this tool
against all libraries, you instead use &alllibraries=true.
If you have many libraries, this process can take a long time to run,
so it might be better to run this tool against individual libraries
instead of all libraries.
- fix
- If omitted or set to false, a report listing which versions were
cleared is displayed. If set to true, versions are cleared as specified.
- preserve_dates
- If set to true, the last modified date of items that are updated
by the module is preserved. If omitted or set to false, the last modified
date is not preserved.
Results
Note: You cannot completely clear all versions. One version
of an item always remains no matter what parameters you select when
the version history is cleared.
Running the tool on a virtual portal
There
are two methods available when the tool is run on a virtual portal:
- Using the URL context of a virtual portal:
http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/myconnect/[url_context]?MOD=ClearVersions
- Using the host name of a virtual portal:
http://[Virtual_HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/myconnect?MOD=ClearVersions