We conclude our blog series on Paxia Galleys tips. This week, we focus on keeping your galley planning module in tip-top shape through housekeeping activities.
Tip 4: How do I perform housekeeping activities?
Enhance your system performance by using housekeeping tools to clean down old and expired data from the system. The optimal approach is to follow this sequence of steps:
Step 1: Expired Aircraft Clean-up (Note: This step is optional; if deemed unnecessary, please proceed to Step 2.)
Loader / Manage Flight Schedules: Remove Flight Records
- Using the ‘End Date < today’s date’ filter for historical flight records where the expired aircraft has operated (use the ‘Config’ column if/when Aircraft Layout is displayed after ‘VV’)
- Delete the historical flight records found
Loader / Product Catalog: Remove ALL Records
- Filter to locate any products for the Aircraft version requiring removal
- Decommission any open-ended Published products and delete any draft products found
- Click the Expired Products button to display all expired products
- Filter to locate any products for the Aircraft version requiring removal, and multi-select using the tick box
- Click the ‘Delete Selected’ button and click ‘OK’; a message will advise when the delete has been completed
- Delete all decommissioned products (following day, after decommissioning)
Loader / Module Catalog: Remove ALL modules
- Filter to locate any modules for the Aircraft version requiring removal
- Use the multi-select tick box to delete the modules found
Tools / Product Assignment Ruler: Remove rules
- Filter to locate any rules for the Aircraft version requiring removal
- Use the multi-select tick box and delete the rules found
Designer / Fleet: Remove Aircraft Layout
- Locate the Aircraft Layout requiring removal
- Right-mouse on the Aircraft Layout and select ‘Delete Aircraft Layout’
Step 2: Product Clean-up
Loader / Product Catalog: Remove ALL expired products
- Click the Expired Products button to display all expired products
- Click the ‘Delete All’ button and click ‘OK’; a message will advise when the delete has been completed, and the number of records remaining will update
– ALTERNATIVELY –
Loader / Product Catalog: Remove selected expired products older than 12 months
- Open the Product Catalog in Loader
- Click the Expired Products button to display all expired products
- Filter on “End Date < 12 months ago” to find all expired products 12 months old or older
- Use the multi-select tick box and delete the rules found in the ‘Delete Selected’ button; a message will advise when the delete has been completed, and the number of records remaining will be updated
- Repeat the step above until all expired products have been removed
Step 3: Container Clean-up (NOTE: Only expired containers where all versions are not used in a module/product/parent container will be removed.)
Container Catalog: Remove expired containers
- Open the Container Catalog
- Select ‘More Actions’ and then ‘Remove Expired Containers’
- Set the number of days (1-365) to remove expired containers older than the selected number of days, e.g., 365 = Containers that expired 12 months ago or more
- Repeat the above steps three times to remove any subsequently expired sub-containers that become unused once the parent containers have been deleted
Step 4: Parts Clean-up
Parts Catalog: Remove expired/unused parts
- Open the Parts Catalog
- Click ‘Find’ and display the full parts list
- Right-mouse on any part in the grid and select ‘Reports’
- Locate and generate the Unused Parts report
- Identify parts in the report that you wish to delete, and use the filter functions to locate and delete these from the Parts Catalog
Stay tuned for our next blog to discuss the top five tips for the Paxia Schedules.
Next up: We will provide tips for utilizing spec tags and removing specifications that are no longer needed.