Job-workflow-autoclean: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server)

From Stsadm

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Description

Specifies the time schedule for when a scan occurs to delete workflow instance data and workflow task items that have been in a completed state for longer than an amount of time specified on the workflow template.

This property does not set the expiration value of a completed workflow. The default value is daily. However, if no value is specified, the expiration value is 60 days.

For more information about workflow, see Workflow management: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server).

NoteNote:
This property is available only from the command line.

Syntax

stsadm -o setproperty

   -propertyname job-workflow-autoclean

   -propertyvalue <valid date and time interval>

   [-url <http://server_name>]

The syntax for the getproperty operation is:

stsadm -o getproperty

   propertyname job-workflow-autoclean

   [-url <http://server_name>]

NoteNote:
You can substitute -pn for -propertyname and -pv for -propertyvalue.

Property values

The following table shows possible values.

Value Description

propertyname

Gets or sets the name of the property.

propertyvalue

A valid Windows SharePoint Services Timer service (SPTimer) schedule in the form of any one of the following schedules:

  • "Every 5 minutes between 0 and 59"

  • "Hourly between 0 and 59"

  • "Daily at 15:00:00"

  • "Weekly between Fri 22:00:00 and Sun 06:00:00"

  • "Monthly at 15 15:00:00"

  • "Yearly at Jan 1 15:00:00"

url

A path to the URL of the Web application, in the form http://server_name.

Examples

To set the time schedule for when the scan will occur to delete workflow data for the Web application, http://test, use the following syntax:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn job-workflow-autoclean -pv "daily at 15:00:00" -url http://test

To view the current setting of the job-workflow-autoclean property, use the following syntax:

stsadm -o getproperty -pn job-workflow-autoclean -url http://test