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Foolproof Way to Delete all Process Instance Data

mrbahr2003 — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:40:09 GMT

Hi,All of my Activiti processes are atomic (no wait states). We use activiti to coordinate complex computer workflows. There is no human interaction. Therefore, at the end of a process, we want to delete all traces of the process instance and it's historical data to keep the in-memory H2 data sto

Re: Foolproof Way to Delete all Process Instance Data

mikedias — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:47:31 GMT

Hi,

You can disable the process engine history in the process engine configuration.

Re: Foolproof Way to Delete all Process Instance Data

mrbahr2003 — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:48:35 GMT

Am I to assume that if the process completes, other than history (which we can turn off), there is nothing else persisted in the database with regard to the process instance. Is that correct?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Foolproof Way to Delete all Process Instance Data

trademak — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:04:46 GMT

Hi Tom,

If you turn off history, and a process instance is completed, no information will be persisted in the database about this process instance.

Best regards,