Changing the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays property

By default the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays property value is set to ‘60’ days, to set this property we need to call the SPList.UpdateWorkflowAssociation(SPWorkflowAssociation) function, SPWeb.Update() won’t work here.

 

    1: SPSite site = new SPSite("<https://nishandv3:100/sites/DevSite/>");

    2: SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

    3: SPWorkflowTemplateCollection collection = web.WorkflowTemplates;

    4: SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

    5: SPWorkflowAssociation _asso = null;

    6: foreach (SPWorkflowAssociation asso in list.WorkflowAssociations)

    7: {

    8: if (asso.Name == "Approval")

    9: {

   10: asso.AutoCleanupDays = 100;

   11: _asso = asso;

   12: }

   13: }

   14: list.UpdateWorkflowAssociation(_asso); 

 

Hope this works for you!

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 10, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 04, 2011
  Hi Is it possible create small tool ? I am not developer so could not use this code :(

• Anonymous
  December 04, 2011
  Please check blogs.tamtam.nl/.../SharePoint+Worflow+History+Lost.aspx There is already prepared tool, just download and run

• Anonymous
  September 19, 2013
  Great information. Had the request by a customer today. /greetings Stefan

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  December 10, 2013
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• Anonymous
  April 14, 2015
  I know this is an old post, but has anyone seen an adverse effect to making this change?  I have a customer who wants to set this selectively to maybe up to 7 years.  Just wondering what I am not thinking of that may make that a bad idea.  It would not be for every workflow, but is there still a reason to NOT do it for any workflow?  Thanks.