Archiving workflow (workitem)

Hi All,
I am archiving old work items but I am finding it difficult to know in advance which workitems can be archived.
TAANA (with standard variant on SWWWIHEAD) can give me completed/cancelled workitems but when I archive in TEST mode most aren't being selected for archiving.
Any thoughts on how to analyze this object further so that I know what workitems can be archived in advance of running the archiving job itself?
Thanks,
Micheá

It appears that an important criteria in the workitem data selection is a check on the value of field WI_CHCKWI (superordinate work item). If the value in that field is not zero, the record is not picked up by the program. Therefore, it is not archived/deleted.
In our case, the check on this field eliminates about half the records.
Note 573656 might be helpful.
Edited by: Brad Knox on Jun 16, 2009 9:15 PM

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