Workflow to delete a list of entries if created over a week ago?

[fayewatson]

@ericterii You can! On paid plans, you can use “recurring workflows”:

[New Feature] Recurring workflows

Users have asked for the ability to run workflows periodically for a while now. We just deployed this ability for users on a paid plan (as this requires using the API section of the Editor). Here is how it works. You can now create Recurring Events in the API page (after you’ve activated the Workflow API for your app). Unlike API Events, these workflows cannot be triggered through a POST request, but can be used in a “Set/cancel a recurring event” (see below). Such a workflow has to take a da…

With the example of deleting a list of things, you would first create a recurring event in the API section:

Recurring events need a ‘type of thing’ associated with it. Since this is more of a single ‘admin’ action, I’ve used “User”, so this is triggered by the admin Current User once they click a “Start” button. (I think you may need to change this to something other than Current User if you have multiple admin recurring event workflows, but I’m not 100% sure):

Add the delete a list of things action:

Then you’ll need to schedule and set the frequency of the recurring event one time. On your admin page (for example), there could be a button which starts this:

This example is in a Hobby App, but you can set a single monthly recurring event under the Personal Plan. If you later decide to cancel the recurring event, a separate button workflow will accomplish this by setting the frequency to “None”:

And here’s more info on recurring events:

Introduction

That should do it!