Delete Statements

To delete DMS objects in yuuvis® RAD, you have to execute the delete operation (via yuuvis® RAD management-studio) which takes an eSQL statement as input to select the objects to delete. This page gives you examples of the most commonly used eSQL statements.

Important

The sysitemcreationdate field selects the creation date of the entire object (item), whereas syscreationdate selects the creation date of the active version.
The datetime identifier takes input of the form yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss". The only required part is yyyy, but all left out parts will be autocompleted with 00
Object type names and element (field) names are accessed by their technical names.

See Archiving Statements for examples of deleting by date/time, creator/modifier and metadata/ID criteria.

Statement	Description

Statement

Description

Select [o] from [dms]:[sysdocument] as [o], [dps]:[sysbox] [b], [dps]:[sysbox2actualnode] [b2n], [dps]:[sysactualnode] [an] where [o].[sysboxid] = [b].[sysid] and [b].[sysid] = [b2n].[sysid1] and [b2n].[sysid2] = [an].[sysid] and exists (select [s].[sysid] from [dps]:[sysset] [s], [dps]:[sysstorage2set] [s2s], [dps]:[sysnode2storage] [n2s], [dps]:[sysbox2actualnode] [b2n] where [b].[sysid] = [b2n].[sysid1] and [b2n].[sysid2] = [n2s].[sysid1] and [n2s].[sysid2] = [s2s].[sysid1] and [s2s].[sysid2] = [s].[sysid] and [s].[syspermanence] = 'ARCHIVE') and [an].[sysretentiontime] < datetime'2022-07-24'L

This will delete all objects that were archived ([syspermanence] = 'ARCHIVE') and where the rentention time has expired before 24th of July 2022 (00:00).

Note: Change [dms]:[sysdocument] to a specific object type (e.g., [dms]:[invoice]) for more performance.

Select [d] from [dms]:[sysdocument] [d], [dps]:[sysbox] [box], [dps]:[sysbox2actualnode] [b2n], [dps]:[sysactualnode] [an], [dps]:[sysactualnode2nodeelement] [a2e], [dps]:[sysnodeelement] [ne], [ecm]:[syscreationtraceowner2user] [c2u], [org]:[sysuser] [u] where [d].sysid = [c2u].[sysid1] and [c2u].[sysid2] = [u].[sysid] and [an].[sysid]=[a2e].[sysid1] and [a2e].[sysid2] = [ne].[sysid] and [box].[sysid] = [b2n].[sysid1] and [b2n].[sysid2] = [an].[sysid] and [d].[sysboxid] = [box].[sysid] and [u].[sysname] = 'import' and [ne].[sysname] = 'filename.txt'

This will delete all objects where the creator of the active version is import and the file name of the content file (of the active version) is filename.txt.

Notes:

Change [syscreationtraceowner2user] to [sysversionedcreationtraceowner2user] to access the creator of the first version of the object.
Change [dms]:[sysdocument] to a specific object type (e.g., [dms]:[invoice]) for more performance and to access specific metadata fields of that type.