Purge Workflow History From SharePoint Online

6 years ago
17 November 2017
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jonathankite
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I've seen plenty of articles regarding Workflow History purges for SP on Prem but does anyone have any advice for purging workflow history on SharePoint online? I have over 7 million records I want to purge, and setting an information policy did not seem to do anything.

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Do you have access to Office 365 PowerShell? If so this post from Aaron Labiosa might be helpful.

How to purge items from a large history list safely via PowerShell

I do have access to Office 365 Powershell but this script is written for onprem and does not really work for online and I'm not entirely sure how to modify - does anyone know how?

callum
Nintex Employee
162 replies
6 years ago
22 November 2017

Hi Jonathan,

Over what time period were these history items created? I believe by default SPO should automatically purge items over 60 days old by itself.

Thanks,

Callum

I can't tell because of list view thresholds but presumably they go back some time given there were over 8 million records. I've set a retention policy to see if that helps but after a week (it's set to permanently delete items created over 7 days) nothing has happened.

Jonathan Kite‌ with on-prem there is a link in the Nintex Workflow section of Site Settings for purging workflow data. I assume that option is not available with O365?

There is no Nintex Workflow section on O365 unfortunately.

callum
Nintex Employee
162 replies
6 years ago
24 November 2017

Hi Jonathan,

It may be worth raising a support case via the O365 portal for this, I believe this should naturally be handled by the SPO platform for you automatically.

add configurations for enabling/disabling Workflow Auto Cleanup and Auto Cleanup Days – SharePoint Experiences in Office…

Thanks

Callum