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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