Process to Delete Import & Bulk Change Reports
Currently deleting older Import Reports and Bulk Change Reports is manual and can be very time consuming. Our consortium has generated a lot over time, and even once we get through the backlog it would be onerous to keep up with regular activity. It would be handy if there was a process that could run on the back-end deleting these, so managing a backlog doesn't need to be a concern.
I picture the process being optional, and deleting the reports based on age (older than X number of weeks/months/years). The process would run overnight, and would ideally be built to avoid impact staff activities during open hours - knowing libraries may have large backlogs of reports, we wouldn't want starting the purging process to cause problems, so it may be practical for there to be thresholds of the number of reports to delete in the night or a stop time. It may also be helpful to block deletion in certain contexts (such as based on the submitting user, or having certain words in the import file or bulk change record set name), but this doesn't seem critical.
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Sharon OBrien commented
It's tedious to maintain this manually now and in a consortium, our backlog builds up quickly!