Setting lifetime of completed human tasks and annotations (comments)

You can set the lifetime of completed annotations and human tasks.

The lifetime is the length of time after the associated entry is deleted. For example, if the lifetime for an annotation is set to 60 days, the annotation is deleted 60 days after the associated report is deleted. If the lifetime for a human task is set to 120, the human task might be deleted 120 days if all linked reports or dashboards are deleted.

The default lifetime is 90 days for completed human tasks and 180 days for completed annotations.

For more information about human tasks, see Managing Human Tasks. For more information about annotations (comments), see the IBM Cognos Workspace User Guide.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Administration, on the Status tab, click System.
  2. In the Scorecard pane, from the change view menu of the current view, click Services > Human Task Service or Services > Annotation Service.
    Tip: The current view is one of All servers, All server groups, All dispatchers, or Services.
  3. From the Actions menu of the service, click Set properties.
  4. Click the Settings tab.
  5. For annotations, find the setting Completed annotation lifetime. For HumanTaskService, find the setting Completed human task lifetime. Set the lifetime in days or months and click OK.

Results

Completed annotations or human tasks are deleted after the number of days that you specify.
Parent topic: Server Administration