You can keep your account organized and clutter-free by deleting Target Groups (Admin interface > Contacts > Groups) that you no longer use and retaining only those that you're actively using.

In addition to this manual method, you can also leverage the "automatic cleanup" option in System Settings to automatically delete unused Target Groups:

based on an "age" threshold that you set (X number of days, months, or years) and
by Target Group type.

This article describes this System Setting only. To learn about all of the System Settings options, see System Settings.

Access System Settings

Access the Admin interface.
Navigate to Settings > System Settings.
Locate the Target Group Automatic Cleanup section.

Enable and configure Automatic Cleanup

In this section, you can:

enable the automatic cleanup of your Target Groups,
set which Target Groups are deleted, and
notify your colleagues.

To automate target-group cleanup:

Check the Active box to enable the feature; the section expands to reveal the configuration options.

Click the dropdowns to set the "have not been used in" number (1–30) of days, months, or years threshold.
Click the dropdown to choose which types of Target Groups to delete. This is you how you delete unused Target Groups while preserving others.

NOTE: Deleted Target Groups can be "undeleted," as described in Delete/Undelete Target Groups.

Specify which users to notify (one email address per line) when Target Groups are automatically deleted.
Configure other settings on the page — or scroll to the bottom and click Update.

Undelete cleaned up Target Groups

The following tables detail which types of Target Groups are affected by the automatic clean-up feature, as well as whether (and how) deleted Target Group types can be undeleted.

Higher Logic Target Groups

Type	During cleanup...	Recovery options
Action-Based	Flag set to deleted	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
Compound	Flag set to deleted	Compounds can include multiple target groups. If the cleanup on the compound has more active target groups inside, the undelete will restore the compound as it was. If any associated target groups have been deleted, they must first be undeleted before the compound can be undeleted. If an included/excluded target group is an interest, it's based on the 7 day limit. Otherwise, no limit.
Demographics	Flag set to deleted	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
Email Client	Excluded from cleanup
Engagement Score	Excluded from cleanup
General	Excluded from cleanup
Interests	Flag set to deleted	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI within 7 days.
Landing Page Activity	Flag set to deleted	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
Landing Page: Submitted	Flag set to deleted, but will be deleted if the landing page is active	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI - no limit. NOTE: If the associated landing page has been deleted, you must first undelete it and make it active before the target group can be undeleted.
Landing Page: Visited	Flag set to deleted, but will be deleted if the landing page is active
Landing Page: Visited but did not Submit	Flag set to deleted, but will be deleted if the landing page is active
Lead Score	Excluded from cleanup
Marketing Compound	Excluded from cleanup
Persona	Excluded from cleanup
Personalization	Flag set to deleted	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
Report	Flag set to deleted	Cannot undelete
Voting	Excluded from cleanup
Web Tracking	Limited to 12 months based on data retention policy

Third-party integrations Target Groups

The following Target Groups are specific to the listed third-party integration.

During automatic clean-up, the flag is set to deleted for all of the Target Groups.

Type	Recovery options
Aptify	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
Association Anywhere	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
GoToWebinar: Attended	Cannot undelete, but you can click Refresh Target Group List to regenerate the target group if the associated webinar still exists.
GoToWebinar: Not Attended	Cannot undelete, but you can click Refresh Target Group List to regenerate the target group if the associated webinar still exists.
GoToWebinar: Registered	Cannot undelete, but you can click Refresh Target Group List to regenerate the target group if the associated webinar still exists.
iMIS Activities	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS Activity Search	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit). If an error message displays, simply refresh the page.
iMIS Ad Hoc	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS IQA	There are two steps to undelete this target group type: 1. Select the Undelete menu option on the UI list page. 2. Then, click the Refresh available IQA Target Groupsbutton.
iMIS PCQ	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS Profile Info	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS SQL Views	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS User-Defined	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
iMIS Zip Code Radius	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
MemberSuite	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
netFORUM Audience Queries	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
netFORUM Dynamic Queries	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
netFORUM Individual Queries	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
netFORUM Pro Queries	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
Higher Logic Community	Can be undeleted from list page in the UI (no limit).
Personify360 MKT Lists	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
Salesforce Contacts	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
Salesforce Leads	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.
Subscriber	Cannot be undeleted in the UI Can be undeleted in database if the delete flag is set back to 0.

Access System Settings

Enable and configure Automatic Cleanup

Undelete cleaned up Target Groups

Higher Logic Target Groups

Third-party integrations Target Groups

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