I am in the process of converting a client's DOS IR data with 250,000 POs spanning 12 years to Adagio PO. I need to fully understand how the archiving and purging functions work.

In Company Profile | History and Tax Information, there are three settings that deal with archiving/purging. They are:

1) Move Documents Older Than x Days to History (max 3650)
2) Keep Detail Line History x Days before Archiving (max 999)
3) Keep Archived Documents x Days before Purging (max 3650)

(I'm assuming that Archive and History are interchangeable terms in PO)

There are two functions that actually affect archiving/purging - a) Day End Processing and b) Tools | Archive Documents.

Please confirm that Day End Processing is the function that uses settings (2) and (3), and that Archive Documents uses setting (1). My tests have shown that the Archive Documents function does not purge anything.

Please explain exactly what setting (2) does? If it said "before Purging" instead of "before Archiving" I would understand that, but it doesn't.

Also, is there a way to absolutely prevent a user from checking off the purge box when running Day End Processing?

Also, while moving transactions to History seems to speed up the opening of the PO grid, it slows down the opening of the History grid. Is there a way to set the History grid to open in Quick Mode, while allowing the PO grid to open in Extended Mode?

Thanks

Steve