Retention of older pages

Question

I have a question, is it possible in Confluence 7.19.4, in the server version, to somehow enable retention of older pages not updated for e.g. 5 years, or created 5 years ago and older.

There is such an automatic retention in the Data Centre, and the question is whether it is possible to somehow manually or semi-automatically delete pages older than a certain time for Confluence Server.

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

I agree with @Dave Rosenlund  _Trundl_ in that migrating to any of the supported deployment types (Cloud or Data Center) would be the only long-term solution.

At the same time, if you have to stay on Server for the near-term and you already have an app installed to Confluence that can help with a specific use case, then the app will continue to work and therefore is a considerable option.

Dave Rosenlund (Trundl) · Answer

Hi, @Mariola Szafran. As you suspected I think, for Atlassian on-prem customers, the Retention feature is only available in the Data Center version of Confluence.

Moreover, since the Server products have been sunsetted, you can no longer purchase server versions of Atlassian Marketplace apps. (so I am a little confused by @Aron Gombas _Midori_'s suggestion).

If you plan to remain on the server platform, you may want to devise an Archival Strategy as an alternative to the Retention approach.

If I were you, I'd consider moving to the Atlassian Cloud or Data Center platforms, as this lack of new features and marketplace alternatives will only worsen over time.

Good luck,

-dave

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

Using the Better Content Archiving app, you can logically delete pages in the background using criteria like you mentioned.

Logically deleting means that they will remain in the Trash. You can add an additional step to periodically purge the Trash, and then you have actual physical deletion!

(Discl. this is a paid and supported app developed by our team. Free for 10 users!)