Before you create the archive project, you configure the source connections to the

source location from which you want to purge events

. You set up access roles and assign security groups to the source locations to determine which users can run archive jobs in Data Archive.

When you create the archive project, you define project parameters to control which events and documents to

purge

. The archive project contains required and optional parameters. Required parameters apply to the entire event hierarchy. Optional parameters apply to the root event in the event hierarchy.

For required parameters that apply to the entire event hierarchy, the archive job

purges

only event hierarchies in which all events match the parameter. For example, if you select to

purge

events older than 10 days, the archive job

purges

event hierarchies in which all events are older than 10 days.

For optional parameters that apply to the root event in the hierarchy, child events of the hierarchy do not need to match the parameter. For example, if you select to

purge

events with a related

topic

, the archive job

purges

event hierarchies in which only the root event has a related

topic

. The child events in the event hierarchy can have different related

publications

.

After you create the archive project, you schedule and run an archive job. The archive job contains the archive project that you created and any additional operations that Data Archive needs to perform to successfully complete the event

purging

.