Customer would like to delete data in the MDA using Rules Engine.

Thanks Michael. Delete is a risky option on a system like Rules, do you think of a archive before the delete?

Sundar - We also have some similar requirement where we wanted to purge or archive data if not needed. Is there automated way of archive or purge ?

We are coming up with a feature to Export data to Your S3 bucket / Gainsight's S3 bucket, which can help in this regard.

Is there a way to delete Data within the MDA manually? I have a field i created, but want to delete the data so that i can edit the Data Type from Percentage to Number.

I think Delete should be used with caution, but should also be available. I'm creating a large number of rows for a daily calculation only to move the value back to the original table. Not being able to purge that table is a waste of space and adds some complexity to my rules. So I vote for "rule builder beware!"

And -- Johnny -- if you haven't seen this already, go to the Custom Object's Data page, filter to the right data sent, and then you can delete those records. (Or all records.)

Hi All,

Understand the risk. Can we get clarity on archive solution?

For now, manual deletion is fine but we are using MDA for automated processes and only want to keep the data we need for our daily CoPilot jobs. 

This table can get huge and we don't want to store all of that data in MDA is we don't have to.

API/automated method is good to have as we run into these situation all time

This is becoming a requirement for us as well. We have data loading currently on a daily basis but only need to keep the daily analysis for 12-14m. After that, we would like to aggregate the data to monthly in order to reduce the size of the file and then delete the daily records. Currently, we do not have a way to do this in mass. Any suggestions?

I 100% vote this up with perhaps a large/loud disclaimer and mandatory test run and export/archive option? We have accrued over 361M records in one object and the optimal object size is 10M and we anticipate expanding our customer base rapidly. Please help!!!!

@jeffrey_boyer / @chris_mudd / @shibani_mehta Attempting to reinvigorate this need/requirement, please assist?