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There are two things I want to add to Maks answer.

1. Make sure you have defined night hours. Otherwise they won’t be deleted if you choose to delete them during the night.
2. The retention feature is not part of WEBCONAPPS. You can use the REST API as a fallback.


We are also using a cyclical action to clean up „technical“ workflows after a certain timeframe.

Best regards,
Daniel

MVP

Hi Lukasz,

each content database has their own applications with own ids. You can import the same application in both databases but you should modify the application group name afterwards. Importing the same application (Guid) twice will require a change in the global parameters. I think it’s called something along validate unique process ids during import.

We have theee different use cases for multiple databases:

1. One database with GxP critical applications which need to be validated and the other one for „normal“ applications.
2. Requirements due to legal reasons. For example one customer needed to separate the data by country. They are using the same process in different countries where they again have multiple business entities.

3. One extremely growing process with a lot of workflow instances. This was just a
decision from the SQL administrators due to recovery concerns.

Best regards,
Daniel

We are currently testing a Zebra Android handheld scanner (Model: MC333U-GJ3EG4EU) and would like to install the Webcon app on it. However, when attempting to install the app via the Google Play Store, we receive an error message.

I’ve read that App developers can define which device models are supported in the Play Store, but I can’t understand why this particular scanner is not eligible. The Android version is up to date, and the Webcon app installs without issue on other Zebra models.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue or have any ideas on what might be causing this?

MVP

Hi Maciej,
You could try archiving the document with 'Retention' set to 'Remove from content database', although it removes it without any possibility to bring it back.
If you are sure that users will know that it's not possible to bring it back, i'd consider using it, although most of the time i'm keeping a 'Cancelled' step in the workflow, with 'Go back' path for those 'undo my mistake please' moments.


*https://docs.webcon.com/docs/2025R2/Guides/Archiving/

MVP
In reply to: Nikolaus Schusser

Hi Maksymilian!

That is a good suggestion, tried that.

Unfortunately it didn't work.

Maybe Start-Job is not the right choice, because it starts a new thread.

If I run the attached script directly on server, it works like a charm.

Could you please post a snippet on how you are starting powershell script?

Thank you & have a nice day!

I'd just skip that Start-Job, in my example I'm just generating an XML file, but as a direct script, without any additional functions.

New thread shouldn't be necessary, just add -TimeoutSec parameter, to make PowerShell wait for the request to complete.
Invoke-WebRequest https://www.example.com/longrunningtask -ConnectionTimeoutSeconds 60 -OperationTimeoutSeconds 60 (would try both)

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