Article - CS20325
How to use "Purge Manager" or "Purge Management" in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 06-Nov-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.1
Description
- How to use Purge Manager/Management
- How to delete all or some of the non-latest Iterations of objects
- How to delete the non-latest revisions of objects
- How to build purge queries and delete iterations or revisions of objects using the Purge Management
- How to remove old iterations of WTparts and CAD documents to keep one official version in each revision
- What access is required to access Purge Management to perform Purge action
- How to purge quality objects
- How to purge object that are in other state except Released, Alpha, Beta release
- How to delete old objects, for example, older than 5 years
- How to use Include Descendants
- Steps to follow for Purge Management to delete Business Objects
- There is a large set of data in FileVault, how to purge them
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