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Purge Criteria - Tickets

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When you select all desired options in the Purge wizard and then start the purge process, the wizard analyzes whether individual transaction and maintenance records can be deleted based on a number of criteria. This topic describes the criteria that determine when time and expense tickets will not be purged.

A time and expense ticket is retained if one of the following is true:

  1. The transaction date is greater than the purge-through date.
  2. The ticket can be used on an invoice
    • AND the ticket has not before been used on any invoice
    • AND, in the Old Transactions window, you have not chosen to purge unused tickets OR you have chosen to purge unused tickets, but the transaction date is greater than the chosen date for purging unused tickets.
  3. The transaction is a time ticket for an employee whose pay method is Hourly - Time Ticket Hours
    • AND the ticket has not been used in any payroll transaction
    • AND, in the Old Transactions window, you have not chosen to purge unused tickets OR you have chosen to purge unused tickets, but the transaction date is greater than the chosen date for purging unused tickets.
  4. If the billing status of the ticket is HOLD