Maintenance

This section contains settings for essential functions and data management.

Background Processing - When enabled, the scheduler will start, end, and close listings, and refresh fees (owed by user). If the site administrator wants to "pause" automated processing of the site, this option may be disabled.

When enabled, the following background processes will run:

  • Starting Listings - Activates listings set to begin in the future
  • Listing Resolution - Ends and resolves listings
  • Fee Refresher - Calculates fees owed
  • Notifier - Manages sending emails

Note: If this option is not enabled, the above processes do not run. The results are: listings never start or end, no system emails are sent, and no invoices are generated.

Clear Cache - For performance reasons, Categories and Custom Fields are cached for a short period of time. Clicking this button immediately clears the cache allowing the newly added categories and custom fields to be loaded.

Reset Email Templates - Deletes all email template content for all cultures and restores the default subject and body for each.

 

Data Cleanup & Optimization

Enable data cleanup - When enabled, Performs deep cleaning of deleted records, in addition to optional deletion of older event/listing/image data, during the specified maintenance window.

Note: Disabling this option will also disable all other data cleanup options below.

Maintenance Window - Daily data maintenance operations will be limited to this maintenance period. If enabled below, this time will also be used to delete old data. If there is more maintenance work than can be completed in the alloted time then it will be paused until the following maintenance period.

Note: This time should ideally be scheduled outside of peak traffic hours because overall site performance may be temporarily reduced during this period.

Automatically delete old listings - When enabled, listings older than the specified number of days will automatically be removed from the system.

Delete listings closed more than X days ago - This setting sets the amount of time to let a listing exist without being effected by the data cleanup process.

Include Successful Listings - When enabled, listings that ended with a bidder will be cleared out after the set number of days.

Include draft listings - When enabled, draft listings will be cleared out that were created more than the set number of days ago.

Automatically delete extra images from closed Listings - When enabled, all images besides the primary image will be deleted from closed listings after a set number of days.

Delete extra images on listings closed more than X days ago - This setting sets the amount of time after a listing closes before the extra images are deleted.