Automate the selection of processes for cancel/delete

[Daniel Perez Gonzalez]

From the UI processes can be selected for cancel or delete,  the the select all selects 20 entries on the current page.

it is ok when you have totals of 2 digits but for more this method is time consuming, and requires manual actions.

The job "Delete Process Instance" can be a solution for the "delete" but there is not a job for cancelling running/error processes

And from GEL it is possible to launch processes, but what about cancelling them?

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[Suman Pramanik]

The job calls the xbl file where all the logic has been written, however the pain point is understandable and best to raise an enhancement for the same via product management office hours  

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Thanks & Regards
Suman Pramanik
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[Daniel Perez Gonzalez]

the job "Delete Process Instance" with filter parameters is neither cleaning aborted or done.

I've tried with different filters, and at least:

      process name+status+range of specific dates, status+range of specific dates,status+range of relative dates

      

Is/was there any bug in this job for certain parameters?

The jop gets executed without error but no a single process is deleted.

The job definition has enabled logs, Should be written logs in the server?

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[Suman Pramanik]

Do you have aborted process within the date range you selected. 

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Thanks & Regards
Suman Pramanik
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[Daniel Perez Gonzalez]

yes, I tried several combinations and always with days inside the filtered period.

Regarding the filter in the screenshot capture, there are aborted processes started on  days 23,25,26 but not deleted yet

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[Suman Pramanik]

For a test can you pass specific from and to date and see if the process is getting deleted or not. 

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Thanks & Regards
Suman Pramanik
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[Daniel Perez Gonzalez]

This test among many others were already done without success.

Anyway I've just realized that filters are related to "Finish" dates and not "Start" dates (as i was expecting).

In brief for aborted instances of a process is all or none so, the job is working "as expected".

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[Luis Palacios]

Daniel, that is correct and we can confirm that is the behavior. What we tend to recommend organizations is a job for aborted instances and another one for completed ones with a date range

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[Daniel Perez Gonzalez]

Yes, it allows to schedule the partial cleaning of "completed". 

Just the design of the job is not considering that when you are facing many errors, sometimes you have to cancel them, but it can be useful to keep the logs of some aborted processes for later analysis.

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