Cleaning up completed jobs

Question

Is it possible to cleanup completed jobs without manually deleting jobs?   It would be nice to do a clean up and only retain x amount of days of completed jobs.

Would python be suitable for it?

CodyPatterson · Answer

Hey @ChrisBerryman

Here's an example of the deletion process:

from arcgis.gis import GIS
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
load_dotenv()

gis = GIS('https://<company>.com/portal', username, password)

# Workforce Assignments

wforce = 'id'
WFwforce = gis.content.get(wforce)
WFwforceLayers = WFwforce.layers
wforceLayer = WFwforceLayers[0]
wforce_features = wforceLayer.query().features

yesterday = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)
yesterday_hour = yesterday.replace(minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
unix_yesterday = int(yesterday_hour.timestamp())

for item in wforce_features:
    item_attr = item.attributes
    if item_attr['completeddate'] != None:
        if item_attr['completeddate'] > unix_yesterday:
            # Delete the item

Cody

ChrisBerryman · Answer

Yeah if you got an example that would be great!

Thank you!

CodyPatterson · Answer

Hey @ChrisBerryman

You can setup a Python script to have a date cutoff and delete certain jobs after a certain date threshold, I do this currently with Workforce points, but it may also be a good idea to move them to a separate backup table instead of fully deleting for record keeping purposes.

If you'd like a good structure on how to create this script let me know and I'll post one!

Cody