past events removal

It does not seem possible to automatically delete past events. If that is true what strategy should be employed to maintain a clean database?

Hi Richard

Why do you want to delete events? What will happen with registrants of these events?

Tuan

Tuan I would also appreciate an option to archive old events and registrants.
Maybe not delete but archive.

My site is intended to connect users to performing and fine arts events in a geographical area. The key requirements are for the site to,
1.) present accurate, easily searchable event information in an uncluttered format which is entirely under the control of the user,
2.) allow event managers with limited technical skills to easily submit their event information on the front end only (for single and multiple but not necessarily repeating dates), and
3.) be made secure and maintainable with a minimum of administrative resources.
It is not necessary for any of the event or registration information to be retained or archived once the event has been presented. In fact I don't consider registration to be a necessary feature of my site at all although I will probably take advantage of it if there are no collateral downsides.
I expect that some of my event submitters will not be conscientious about removing out-of-date event information and I would have to sweep the database on a regular basis to prevent saturating the resource.

If you want something like that, I think you will need to write a system plugin to perform checking and removing events and it's registrants from database if needed

For example, each time the plugin runs, check and if any events older than 100 days, delete these events and it's registrants

Tuan

OK thanks Tuan. I see that you have documentation for adding plugins.

Actually, for this, you would need to develop a system plugin. So the documentation which we are having is useless. You can look at plugins/system/ebreminder/ebreminder.php for a sample system plugin comes with Events Booking by default

Tuan

Hi Tuan, In line with GDPR it would be essential to have a system that can easily delete all registrant details from the database after a specific date. Of course this can be done with sql but a plugin that does this would be very welcome.

You can always delete registrants from backend in Registrants Management. For deleting automatically, a plugin will need to be developed but not hard

If there are more customers need it, I will work on the development

Tuan