Archive and retention

Delete on cases soft-archives them. Open Archive in the project to Restore items into the tree or Purge them permanently.

Delete case Archive Restore Purge Gone
Soft delete sends items to Archive; Purge and auto-cleanup remove data permanently.
Archive with Restore and Purge actions
Archive: Restore returns cases to the tree; Purge deletes permanently.

Quotas

Project Quotas control automatic cleanup:

SettingEffect
Archive auto-purge (days)How long archived cases stay before automatic permanent deletion
Test run retention (days)How long finished runs stay before automatic cleanup
Max test case versionsCap on stored case versions
Auto-finish test runs after idle (minutes)Idle active runs finish automatically

Cleanup does not remove locked runs. Runs with status Running are also kept while they stay active.

Project settings Quotas with retention fields
Set Archive auto-purge and Test run retention under Project settings → Quotas.

Configure quotas under Project settings → Quotas.