Clean Job: Guided Procedures - Locked Objects & Background Action Process Q

I opened this thread also in Portal Content Development thread,
but I think its more useful here:
Hi Experts,
We are running several Workflows on our Portal, they often lock objects and use the background action processor queue.
You can unlock these objectes manually by selection 'Unlock Objects' (which is below Guided Procedures - Administration)
And you can delete the successfull processed action queues (Guided Procedures - Administration - Maintain Queues).
Is it possible to this in a weekly running job? All objects should be unlocked, the queue should only be deleted for actions which where processed successfully and are older then a date.
Is this possible?
Thanks for any help,
Chris

Hi Sitarama,
<br/>
<br/>Thanks very much for your fast reply. Yes, the smartforms are custom-built. Besides the deadlock error, there still has some errors in SP01 says "Could not pass request to host spool system". But it previews wonderfully in SP01. The detailed SP01 error log is like below:
Print request processing log
Errors occurred processing this print request
Error during print request output. l_rc = 99
There may be no printout
Most important attributes of spool request
Request number 2828
Request name SMART LOCA 8000199
Client 800
Owner 8000199
Request attributes
Time created   2010120906014800
Remaining life +00007235800
Dispo 1 (Go/Hold) G
Dispo 2 (Keep/Delete)     D
Dispo 3 (Indirect/Direct) D
Default output device LOCA
Default no. copies 1
Format ZTEST
Main print request characteristics
Spool request number 2828
Print request number 1
Print request attributes
Time created   2010120906020500
Output device LOCA
Format ZTEST
What do you mean parallel processing on table level? The smartforms extract data from different SAP tables and then transfer to smartform interface, then they can added in form pages. Do you think this results parallel processing towards tables?
<br/>
Thank you and hope to hear more from you.
Best Regards,
Jeff

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