Utility - Garbage Collect

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Purpose

This document allows the user to perform a garbage collect on the LILAC database.

Prerequisites

A garbage collect should only be performed when instructed to by Lennox Computer staff. A back up should be performed before a garbage collect is performed.

Context

A garbage collect will erase the information specified from the LILAC database. This is permanent, and so any reports needs should be run before the garbage collect.

About This Screen

Field Enterable? Instructions
Key Yes Displays the garbage collect key.
Operator Yes Type in the name of the person doing the garbage collect.
Customer Orders Yes Type in the date. All sales orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Filled Customer Orders Yes Type in the date. All filled sales orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Work Orders Yes Type in the date. All work orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Complete Work Orders Yes Type in the date. All completed work orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Invoices Yes Type in the date. All sales invoices dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Purchase Orders Yes Type in the date. All purchase orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Filled Purchase Orders Yes Type in the date. All filled purchase orders dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Goods Received Yes Type in the date. All goods received documents dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Complete Goods Received Yes Type in the date. All completed goods received documents dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Purchase Invoices Yes Type in the date. All purchase invoices dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Filled Transfers Yes Type in the date. All transfer and transhipment documents dated before this date will be garbage collected.
Garbage Period Yes Type in the period to garbage Ledger Entries prior to. Set this to 999999 to erase all financial history.

Transaction Processing

Button Description
Clear Clicking the Clear button will blank out all the parameters for the garbage collect. 
Set Max Clicking the Set Max button will set the parameters to the maximum available. 
Do Collect! Clicking the Do Collect! button will perform the garbage collect. 

From Here

After completing a garbage collect, you should Utility - Reindex the database.