Document Purge

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Document Purge

 

Document types can be setup to have a pre-determined amount of time (in months or years) before the document types are eligible for purging. (Refer to Editing Document Type Properties)

Important: All purging is performed on a manual basis. There is no job that “automatically” purges documents from the system.

 

1.From the ribbon toolbar, click Administration.

2.Click the Documents dropdown, DocumentsButton.

3.Click Document Purge, PurgeDocumentButton
 
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The following Document Purge window displays:
 
DocumentPurgeScreen

 

4.Click Add Documents to select documents to purge.
 
A Search Utility window similar to the following displays:
 
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Notice that there is an Additional Filter that displays in the lower left corner. This provides a search filter if a menu setting is set to Past Retention Period.
If the setting is left as "None", no filter will be used and any document may be selected to purge.
 

5.Select the document types and index type combinations for the documents to purge.

6.Review the list of document to be purged.

7.Check off all documents to be purged.
 
Note:  Use Select All and Unselect All as shortcuts.
 

8.Click Send.
 
The Document Purge window re-displays:
 
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Column headings

Description

description of document to be purged

Document Type

document type of document

User

name of user who originally indexed document

Index Date

date document was originally indexed

Purge Date

calculated purge date based upon retention settings of document type

Add Documents

add additional documents to list

Remove Documents

remove selected documents from purge list

View

open selected document in Sage Paperless Construction main viewer window

 

Important:  Deleted documents are not physically deleted from the Sage Paperless Construction system until they are purged. Deleted documents are marked Inactive.

 

9.Click the Include Inactive Documents check box to purge inactive files too.

10.Once satisfied with the list of documents, click Purge Documents to permanently purge the documents from the Sage Paperless Construction system.
 
The following warning prompt displays:
 
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Warning:  Once a document is purged from the system it is no longer accessible.

 

11.Click Yes to continue with the purge.
Click No to cancel the purge.
 
Clicking Yes will cause the following:

The document image will be deleted.

All database records will be deleted for each selected document.

A purged document audit entry will be created in a database table providing the Document ID, Vault ID, Document Type, Document Description, User ID (person performing the purge), and Purge Date.

 

When completed, a prompt similar to the following displays:
 
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12.Click OK.