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How to expire/clean-up Private Versions

JefB
Active Contributor

If a user updates data in a public version, automatically SAC will generate some kind of private version... The data changes will only be saved back to the public version once that user 'publishes' the data. Of course, many planning users will forget this 'publish' step... and their changes will not be visible to anyone else.

Now it seems to me that this generated private version never expires... so the next time the users login, they will still see this private version (without any visual clues) and so they will also miss anyone else's updates and latest numbers. The generated private versions seems to exist forever.

How can key-users / power users responsible for the planning process ever clean-up these private versions?
It looks to me that only model administrators are allowed to go into model settings and delete all private versions (including recent ones) of all users (no other selections possible).

How can this be manageable in an enterprise planning process where you have tens or hundreds of planning users?
Do you know of any good workarounds?

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Noel_Munday
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Hi,

You are able to do this using an Analytical Application and use the API for managing versions. Then you will be able to select specific versions and delete them if you want and there is also an API to show you if a version is "dirty" iow unpublished data. You could, for example, then use this API to set an indicator for the end user to show there is unsaved data.

Regards,

Noel

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ANALYTICS_CLOUD/18850a0e13944f53aa8a8b7c094ea29e/fcc3d4dcbac0403d9ac19...

JefB
Active Contributor
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Hi Noel, have you tried that -deleting someone else's implicit private version- using the API?

robin_h_ren0
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Hi Noel,

I would like to know, is that possible to centrally delete all version in all model? We would like to delete all data and re-create in next year.

Best Regards,

Robin