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title: "Clean up EDI journals and EDI history"
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description: "Manage EDI history and staging journals efficiently in EDI Studio with cleanup steps to optimize data retention and streamline your processes."
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updated: 2026-03-20T12:26:55Z
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# Clean up EDI journals and EDI history

In EDI Studio:

- All EDI transactions are logged in **EDI history management** (**BisEdiHistory** table).
- You can use the staging concept to validate data in an intermediate area before it is further processed. Several predefined staging journals are available for EDI Studio:
  - **EDI purchase journal**
  - **EDI purchase arrival journal**
  - **EDI Sales journal**
  - **EDI Delfor journal**
  - **EDI inventory journal**
  - **EDI transfer journal**

To prevent the database from containing too much data, you can clean up the EDI history and EDI staging journals in recurring mode.

For example, you want to keep the EDI staging journals for six months. Each week, you can do a cleanup, deleting staging journals older than six months.

### Steps

1. Go to **EDI** > **Periodic** > **EDI journal clean-up** > **Clean EDI history**.
2. Click **OK**.
3. Sub-task: Clean up EDI history.
  1. You can clean up the EDI history.

Select **Yes** in the **Delete EDI History** field.
  2. Define the period for which you want to keep the EDI history records. All EDI history records that are older than the defined period, are deleted.

In the **Number of days** field, enter a number.
4. Sub-task: Clean up EDI journals.
  1. You can clean up the EDI journals.

To define which EDI journals are deleted, use these filters:

Select **Yes** in the **Delete EDI Staging journals** field.
    - **Number of days**
    - **Status**
    - **EDI journal type**
  2. Define the period for which you want to keep the EDI journals. All EDI journals that are older than the defined period, are deleted.

In the **Number of days** field, enter a number.
  3. Select the statuses for which you want to delete the EDI journals. All EDI journals that have one of the defined statuses, are deleted.

In the **Statuses** field, enter or select the desired statuses.
  4. You can include the EDI sales journals in the clean up.

Select **Yes** in the **Include EDI sales journals** field.
  5. You can include the EDI purchase journals in the clean up.

Select **Yes** in the **Include EDI purchase journals** field.
  6. You can include the EDI inventory journals in the clean up.

Select **Yes** in the **Include EDI inventory journals** field.
  7. You can include the EDI transfer journals in the clean up.

Select **Yes** in the **Include EDI transfer journals** field.
  8. You can include the EDI Delfor journals in the clean up.

Select **Yes** in the **Include EDI DELFOR journals** field.
5. Sub-task: Set up batch processing.
  1. Expand the **Run in the background** section.
  2. Select **Yes** in the **Batch processing** field and fill in the fields as desired.
  3. Click **Recurrence** and fill in the fields as desired.
  4. Click **OK**.
6. Click **OK**.