How do I change the time for which a completed advisory is retained?

Summary

There may be instances whereby you need to increase or decrease the amount of time a completed workshop advisory remains on the system for, this article explains how this can be changed.

More Information

Go to " Systems Workshop Maintenance Options Parameters Advisory Work Parameters".

• At the bottom of the options you will see "Keep Completed advisories for".
• This Defaults to '3' years but can be changed to any other amount in years you require.

WARNING:  Setting this field to '0' will mean advisories with a remedy code will be purged immediately and cannot be recovered.

• Click the [Close] button.

Information:  There will not be an accept prompt as this setting is saved automatically.

WARNING:  For this setting to become active users will need to exit from the Workshop system and re-enter.

See also

• Creating Workshop Jobs
• How do I Add Advisories to a Workshop Job?
• How do I Create Problem Codes for Workshop Advisories?
• How do I Create Remedy Codes for Workshop Advisories?
• How do I Stop Workshop Advisory Work Report from Printing Automatically?
• How do I Stop Vehicle Health Check Sheets from Printing Automatically?
• How do I Change Where Vehicle Health Checks and Advisory Reports Print?
• How do I Change the Automated Remedy code for Completed Advisories?

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