Purging documents

Purging is a process that permanently deletes input and output document instances processed in IGFC. When the purge setting is active, documents older than the defined retention days are deleted. The purging job runs as often as specified in the purging schedule based on these settings:
  • Retention days – the number of days that the document is kept or stored before purging. The current date-time is compared against the date-time in IGFC to determine the age of the document in days.
  • Purge schedule – defines how often the purging job is executed when active. The schedule is defined in CRON expression that consists of these components: seconds, minutes, hours, day of month, month, day of week, and year. All fields are required, except for the year component.

When an input or output document is purged, access to the XML copy in IGFC View page will no longer be available as the View hyperlink is not displayed. The journal control containing a condensed format of the output SourceSystemJournalEntry and the Reprocess action are also not available. However, the rest of details of the input or output entry in the View page is still shown. These details provide information on the inbox or outbox ID, status, document name, document ID, received date time, sender or receiver entity, and the rule that was executed to generate an output.