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Temporary, Self Deleting Dataviews

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Temporary, Self Deleting Dataviews

Reporting


I find myself frequently writing data views that might have a limited shelf life - for example, we're hosting an event here at the church that has hundreds of volunteers registering with us from the community, most of whom we don't expect to be long-term attendees.  I would like to do some limited reporting on those volunteers, like "show me all the volunteers who have a school.edu address"

My expectation is that, once the event is over, we won't have a great use for a data view created around one registration instance.

It would be nice to, at the time of creation, be able set an expiration date on a data view.  That is, once that date is reached, the DV is deleted without any additional intervention. 

Any attached reports that aren't called by a dynamic report block would also expire and be deleted.

Example:

Photo of Luke TaylorSubmitted by Luke Taylor, Highlands Church  ·   ·  Reporting
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